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In an old time there was a king as wise as a dictionary.

Anne Sexton

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Anne Sexton
Age: 45 †
Born: 1928
Born: November 9
Died: 1974
Died: October 4
Poet
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Newton
Massachusetts
Anne Gray Harvey
Time
Royalty
Dictionary
King
Kings
Wise
Wisdom

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Once upon a time we were all born, popped out like jelly rolls forgetting our fishdom, the pleasuring seas, the country of comfort, spanked into the oxygens of death.
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Oh sharp diamond, my mother! I could not count the cost of all your faces, your moods that present that I lost. Sweet girl, my deathbed, my jewel-fingered lady...
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Not that it was beautiful, but that I found some order there.
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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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What a lay me down this is with two pink, two orange, two green, two white goodnights.
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Don't bite till you know if it's bread or stone.
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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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Abundance is scooped from abundance yet abundance remains.
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The day of fire is coming, the thrush will fly ablaze like a little sky rocket.
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The man inside of woman ties a knot so that they will never again be separate.
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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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My safe, safe psychosis is broken. It was hard. It was made of stone. It covered my face like a mask. But it has cracked.
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Perhaps I am no one. True, I have a body and I cannot escape from it. I would like to fly out of my head, but that is out of the question.
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But even in a telephone booth evil can seep out of the receiver and we must cover it with a mattress, and then tear it from its roots and bury it, bury it.
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it was my first doll that water went into and water came out of much earlier it was the diaper I wore and the dirt thereof and my mother hating me for it
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Nature is full of teeth that come in one by one, then decay, fall out.
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Let the light be called Day so that men may grow corn or take busses.
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stop the darkness and its amputations and find the real McCoy in the private holiness of my hands.
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The body is a damn hard thing to kill.
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Yet love enters my blood like an I.V., dripping in its little white moments.
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