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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
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Newton
Massachusetts
Anne Gray Harvey
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Be careful of words, / ... they can be both daisies and bruises.
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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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I remember the stink of the liverwurst. How I was put on a platter and laid between the mayonnaise and the bacon. The rhythm of the refrigerator had been disturbed.
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I am younger each year at the first snow. When I see it, suddenly, in the air, all little and white and moving then I am in love again and very young and I believe everything.
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I must always forget how one word is able to pick out another, to manner another, until I have got something I might have said... but did not.
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Please God, we're all right here. Please leave us alone. Don't send death in his fat red suit and his ho-ho baritone.
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Father, you died once, salted down at fifty-nine, packed down like a big snow angel, wasn't that enough?
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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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All the oxygen of the world was in them. All the feet of the babies of the world were in them. All the crotches of the angels of the world were in them. All the morning kisses of Philadelphia were in them.
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Letters are false really - they are expressions of the way you wish you were instead of the way you are.
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Images are probably the most important part of the poem. First of all you want to tell a story, but images are what are going to shore it up and get to the heart of the matter.
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The future is a fog that is still hanging out over the sea, a boat that floats home or does not.
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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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To tell the truth days are all the same size and words aren't much company.
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O yellow eye, let me be sick with your heat, let me be feverish and frowning.
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Every time I get happy the Nana-hex comes through. Birds turn into plumber's tools, a sonnet turns into a dirty joke, a wind turns into a tracheotomy, a boat turns into a corpse.
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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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Put your mouthful of words away and come with me to watch the lilies open in such a field, growing there like yachts, slowly steering their petals without nurses or clocks.
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Inside many of us is a small old man who wants to get out.
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It's all a matter of history. Brandy is no solace. Librium only lies me down like a dead snow queen. Yes! I am still the criminal.
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