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I tell it stories now and then and feed it images like honey. I will not speculate today with poems that think they're money.

Anne Sexton

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Anne Sexton
Age: 45 †
Born: 1928
Born: November 9
Died: 1974
Died: October 4
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Anne Gray Harvey
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The grass as bristly and stout as chives and me wondering when the ground will break and me wondering how anything fragile survives
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For I could not read or speak and on the long nights I could not turn the moon off or count the lights of cars across the ceiling.
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Blue eyes wash off sometimes.
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Emerald as heavy as a golf course, ruby as dark as an afterbirth, diamond as white as sun on the sea.
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And if I tried to give you something else, something outside myself, you would not know that the worst of anyone can be, finally, an accident of hope
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Poetry is my life, my postmark, my hands, my kitchen, my face.
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I am alone here in my own mind. There is no map and there is no road. It is one of a kind just as yours is.
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bike downtown, stick out tongues at the Catholics. Or form a Piss Club where we all go in the bushes and peek at each other's sex.
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As a writer one has to take the chance on being a fool.
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My mouth blooms like a cut.
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Craft is a trick you make up to let you write the poem.
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I'm the crazy one who thinks that words reach people.
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I have a black look I do not like. It is a mask I try on. I migrate toward it and its frog sits on my lips and defecates.
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Watch out for love (unless it is true, and every part of you says yes including the toes), it will wrap you up like a mummy, and your scream won't be heard and none of your running will run.
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I hoard books. They are people who do not leave.
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I lay there silently, hoarding my small dignity. I did not ask about the gate or the closet. I did not question the bedtime ritual where, on the cold bathroom tiles, I was spread out daily and examined for flaws. I did not know that my bones, those solids, those pieces of sculpture would not splinter.
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The family story tells, and it was told true, of my great-grandfather who begat eight genius children and bought twelve almost new grand pianos. He left a considerable estate when he died.
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I would sell my life to avoid the pain that begins in the crib with its bars or perhaps with your first breath when the planets drill your future into you.
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I'll Vacuum up my stale hair, I'll pay all my neighbors' bad debts, I'll write a poem called Yellow and put my lips down to drink it up.
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Fee-fi-fo-fum - Now I'm borrowed. Now I'm numb.
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