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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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It is in the small things we see it. The child's first step, as awesome as an earthquake. The first time you rode a bike, wallowing up the sidewalk.
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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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O yellow eye, let me be sick with your heat, let me be feverish and frowning.
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Let God be some tribal female who is known but forbidden.
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I imitatea memory of beliefthat I do not own.
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Fear / a motor, / pumps me around and around / until I fade slowly.
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I raise my pelvis to God so that it may know the truth of how flowers smash through the long winter.
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My husband sings Baa Baa black sheep and we pretend that all's certain and good, that the marriage won't end.
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Then all this became history. Your hand found mine. Life rushed to my fingers like a blood clot. Oh, my carpenter, the fingers are rebuilt. They dance with yours.
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Thief!- how did you crawl into, crawl down alone into the death I wanted so badly and for so long.
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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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Of course the New Testament is very small. Its mouth opens four times as out-of-date as a prehistoric monster, yet somehow man-made.
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My eyes, those sluts, those whores, would play no more.
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I see myself as one would see another. I have been cut in two.
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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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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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Today God gives milk / and I have the pail.
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There is rust in my mouth,the stain of an old kiss.
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