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• All day I've built a lifetime and now the sun sinks to undo it.

  Anne Sexton

  Sun, Lifetime, Built

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.213, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When they turn the sun
  on again I'll plant children
  under it, I'll light up my soul
  with a match and let it sing.

  Anne Sexton

  Hope, Children, Light

  Anne Sexton (1978). “Words for Dr. Y.: uncollected poems with three stories”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• Maybe, although my heart
  is a kitten of butter,
  I am blowing it up like a zeppelin.

  Anne Sexton

  Heart, Zeppelins, Blowing It

  Anne Sexton (1975). “The Awful Rowing Toward God”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

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• My faith
  is a great weight
  hung on a small wire,
  as doth the spider
  hang her baby on a thin web.

  Anne Sexton

  Faith, Baby, Wire

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• To love another is somethinglike prayer and it can't be planned, you just fallinto its arms because your belief undoes your disbelief.

  Anne Sexton

  Prayer, Arms, Belief

  Anne Sexton, “Admonitions To A Special Person”

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• Mood can be as important as sense.

  Anne Sexton

  Feelings, Important, Mood

  Anne Sexton, Linda Gray Sexton, Lois Ames (2004). “Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters”, p.32, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• One of my secret instructions to myself as a poet is "Whatever you do, don't be boring."

  Anne Sexton

  Secret, Boring, Poet

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• The tongue, the Chinese say,
  is like a sharp knife:
  it kills
  without drawing blood.

  Anne Sexton

  Blood, Knives, Drawing

  Anne Sexton (1975). “The Awful Rowing Toward God”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

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• Perhaps I am no one. True, I have a body and I cannot escape from it. I would like to fly out of my head, but that is out of the question.

  Anne Sexton

  Body

  Anne Sexton (1975). “The Awful Rowing Toward God”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

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• I would like to bury
  all the hating eyes
  under the sand somewhere.

  Anne Sexton

  Hate, Eye, Sand

  Anne Sexton (1974). “The death notebooks”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• I would like a simple life / yet all night I am laying / poems away in a long box.

  Anne Sexton

  Simple, Night, Long

  Anne Sexton, “The Ambition Bird”

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• Even so, I must admire your skill. You are so gracefully insane.

  Anne Sexton

  Skills, Insane, Admire

  Anne Sexton, “Elegy In The Classroom”

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• Evil is maybe lying to God.
  Or better, lying to love.

  Anne Sexton

  God, Lying, Evil

  Anne Sexton (1975). “The Awful Rowing Toward God”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

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• Love your self's self where it lives.

  Anne Sexton

  Love, Acceptance, Self

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.29, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The windows, the starving windows that drive the trees like nails into my heart.

  Anne Sexton

  Heart, Tree, Nails

  Anne Sexton (1975). “The Awful Rowing Toward God”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

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• Don't bite till you know if it's bread or stone.

  Anne Sexton

  Stones, Bread, Bites

  Anne Sexton (1975). “The Awful Rowing Toward God”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

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• Abundance is scooped from abundance yet abundance remains.

  Anne Sexton

  Abundance, Remains

  Anne Sexton (1975). “The Awful Rowing Toward God”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

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• A woman / who loves a woman / is forever young.

  Anne Sexton

  Forever, Forever Young, Sexuality

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.153, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I am so imperfect, can you love me when really my soul is deformed? Will you love me anyhow?

  Anne Sexton

  Soul, Imperfect, My Soul

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• In a dream you are never eighty.

  Anne Sexton

  Dream, Age, Youth

  "Old" l. 18 (1962)

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• this is no dream
  just my oily life
  where the people are alibis
  and the street is unfindable for an
  entire lifetime.

  Anne Sexton

  Life, Dream, Loss

  Anne Sexton (1976). “45 Mercy Street”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• To tell the truth
  days are all the same size
  and words aren't much company.

  Anne Sexton

  Size, Telling The Truth, Company

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• Being kissed on the back of the knee is a moth at the windowscreen.

  Anne Sexton

  Knees, Moths

  Anne Sexton (1999). “Love Poems”, p.43, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Daisies in water are the longest lasting
  flower you can give to someone.
  Fact.
  Buy daisies.
  Not roses.

  Anne Sexton

  Flower, Giving, Water

  Anne Sexton (1978). “Words for Dr. Y.: uncollected poems with three stories”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• I cannot walk an inch / without trying to walk to God.

  Anne Sexton

  God, Trying, Inches

  Anne Sexton (1975). “The Awful Rowing Toward God”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

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