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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
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Newton
Massachusetts
Anne Gray Harvey
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The ground has on its clothes. The trees poke out of sheets and each branch wears the sock of God.
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Being kissed on the back of the knee is a moth at the windowscreen.
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O yellow eye, let me be sick with your heat, let me be feverish and frowning.
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All day I've built a lifetime and now the sun sinks to undo it.
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To die whole, riddled with nothing but desire for it, is like breakfast after love.
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Yesterday I did not want to be borrowed but this is the typewriter that sits before me and love is where yesterday is at.
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Jewels! Today each twig is important, each ring, each infection, each form is all that the gods must have meant.
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My eyes, those sluts, those whores, would play no more.
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Dead drunk is the term I think of, insensible, neither cool nor warm, without a head or a foot. To be drunk is to be intimate with a fool.
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Poets are sitting in my kitchen. Why do these poets lie? Why do children get children and Did you hear what it said?
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God went out of me as if the sea dried up like sandpaper, as if the sun became a latrine.
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I who was a house full of bowel movement, I who was a defaced altar, I who wanted to crawl toward God could not move nor eat bread.
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