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Inside many of us is a small old man who wants to get out.
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
Inside
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Small
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I am younger each year at the first snow.
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I grow old on my bitterness.
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O yellow eye, let me be sick with your heat, let me be feverish and frowning.
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Nature is full of teeth that come in one by one, then decay, fall out.
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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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It's a little mad, but I believe I am many people. When I am writing a poem, I feel I am the person who should have written it.
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Today is made of yesterday, each time I steal toward rites I do not know, waiting for the lost ingredient, as if salt or money or even lust would keep us calm and prove us whole at last.
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My ideas are a curse. They spring from a radical discontent with the awful order of things. I play clown. I play carpenter. I play nurse. I play witch.
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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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I am tearing the feathers out of the pillows, waiting, waiting for Daddy to come home and stuff me so full of our infected child that I turn invisible, but married, at last.
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The tongue, the Chinese say, is like a sharp knife: it kills without drawing blood.
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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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Well, one gets out of bed and the planets don't always hiss or muck up the day, each day.
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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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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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