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My business is words. Words are like labels, or coins, or better, like swarming bees.

Anne Sexton

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Anne Sexton
Age: 45 †
Born: 1928
Born: November 9
Died: 1974
Died: October 4
Poet
Writer
Newton
Massachusetts
Anne Gray Harvey
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Poetry
Words
Business
Better
Swarming
Like
Coins
Bees
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All considerations for these human remains! They must have an escort! They are classified!
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Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.
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Come, my pretender, my fritter, my bubbler, my chicken biddy! Oh succulent one, it is but one turn in the road and I would be a cannibal!
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I imitatea memory of beliefthat I do not own.
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Even so, I must admire your skill. You are so gracefully insane.
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unless I can shake myself free of my dog, my flag, of my desk, my mind, I find life a bit of a drag. Not always, mind you. Usually I'm like my frying pan useful, graceful, sturdy and with no caper, no plan.
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I will be steel! I will build a steel bridge over my need! I will build a bomb shelter over my heart! But my future is a secret. It is as shy as a mole.
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The place I live in is a kind of maze and I keep seeking the exit or the home.
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Not that it was beautiful, but that I found some order there.
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Let there be seasons so that our tongues will be rich in asparagus and limes.
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Pulling off the fat diamond engagement ring, pulling off the elopement wedding ring, and holding them, clicking them in thumb and forefinger, the indent of twenty-five years, like a tiny rip leaving its mark.
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O fallen angel, the companion within me, whisper something holy before you pinch me into the grave.
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Look to your heart that flutters in and out like a moth. God is not indifferent to your need. You have a thousand prayers but God has one.
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Oh, darling, let your body in, let it tie you in, in comfort.
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Inside many of us is a small old man who wants to get out.
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You must be a poet, a lady of evil luck desiring to be what you are not, longing to be what you can only visit.
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My life has appeared unclothed in court, detail by detail, death-bone witness by death-bone witness, and I was shamed at the verdict.
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