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I am out of practice at living. You are as brave as a motorcycle.

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
Brave
Practice
Living
Experience
Life
Motorcycle
Therapy

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What's the point of fighting the dollars when all you need is a warm bed? When the dog barks you let him in. All we need is someone to let us in. And one other thing: to consider the lilies in the field.
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I did not know the woman I would be nor that blood would bloom in me each month like an exotic flower, nor that children, two monuments, would break from between my legs.
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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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My eyes, those sluts, those whores, would play no more.
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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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If the doctors cure then the sun sees it. If the doctors kill then the earth hides it. The doctors should fear arrogance more than cardiac arrest.
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I love you. You are closest to my heart, closer than any other human being. You are my extension. You are my prayer. You are my belief in God. For better or worse you inherit me.
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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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Only my books anoint me, and a few friends, those who reach into my veins.
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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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All I am is the trick of words writing themselves.
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After a disaster strikes, it can be very devastating and very challenging. You're going to need a lot of strength and energy, and the American Red Cross suggests you go for the high protein items.
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I am stuffing your mouth with your promises and watching you vomit them out upon my face.
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I sit at my desk each night with no place to go, opening the wrinkled maps of Milwaukee and Buffalo, the whole U.S., its cemeteries, its arbitrary time zones, through routes like small veins, capitals like small stones.
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Poor thing. To die and never see Brooklyn.
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God owns heaven but He craves the earth.
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I would like to bury all the hating eyes under the sand somewhere.
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