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I think of myself as writing for one person, that one perfect reader who understands and loves.

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
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Understands
Loves
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O yellow eye, let me be sick with your heat, let me be feverish and frowning.
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Look to your heart that flutters in and out like a moth. God is not indifferent to your need. You have a thousand prayers but God has one.
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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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There is no word for time. Today we will not think to number another summer or watch its white bird into the ground.
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we do not explain my husband's insane abuse and we do not say why your wild-haired wife has fled or that my father opened like a walnut and then was dead. Your palms fold over me like knees. Love is the only use.
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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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