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Evil is maybe lying to God. Or better, lying to love.
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
God
Maybe
Lying
Evil
Better
Love
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True. There is a beautiful Jesus. He is frozen to his bones like a chunk of beef. How desperately he wanted to pull his arms in! How desperately I touch his vertical and horizontal axes! But I can't. Need is not quite belief.
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Blue eyes wash off sometimes.
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Give me your skin as sheer as a cobweb, let me open it up and listen in and scoop out the dark.
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The little girl skipped by under the wrinkled oak leaves and held fast to a replica of herself.
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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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There is a good look that I wear like a blood clot. I have sewn it over my left breast. I have made a vocation of it.
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When I lie down to love, old dwarf heart shakes her head. Like an imbecile she was born old.
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Watch out for intellect, because it knows so much it knows nothing and leaves you hanging upside down, mouthing knowledge as your heart falls out of your mouth.
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Rocks crumble, make new forms, oceans move the continents, mountains rise up and down like ghosts yet all is natural, all is change.
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Daisies in water are the longest lasting flower you can give to someone. Fact. Buy daisies. Not roses.
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I am not at home in myself. I am my own stranger.
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The fish are naked. The fish are always awake. They are the color of old spoons and caramels.
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What's missing is the eyeballs in each of us, but it doesn't matter because you've got the bucks, the bucks, the bucks.
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I burn the way money burns.
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And within the house ashes are being stuffed into my marriage, fury is lapping the walls, dishes crack on the shelves, a strangler needs my throat, the daughter has ceased to eat anything.
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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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