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• The stars are pears
  that no one can reach,
  even for a wedding.
  Perhaps for a death.

  Anne Sexton

  Stars, Pears

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

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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.

  Anne Sexton

  Believe, Writing, Self

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• It is June. I am tired of being brave.

  Anne Sexton

  Tired, June, Brave

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.43, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Though rain curses the window let the poem be made.

  Anne Sexton

  Rain, Window, Made

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• I think it will be a miracle if I don't someday end up killing myself.

  Anne Sexton

  Suicide, Thinking, Miracle

  Anne Sexton, Linda Gray Sexton, Lois Ames (2004). “Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters”, p.255, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Poetry to me is prayer.

  Anne Sexton

  Prayer, Poetry

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• Psychiatry is a dirty mirror.

  Anne Sexton

  Dirty, Mirrors, Psychiatry

  Anne Sexton, Linda Gray Sexton, Lois Ames (2004). “Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters”, p.121, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Writers are such phonies: they sometimes have wise insights but they don't live by them at all. That's what writers are like...you think they know something, but usually they are just messes.

  Anne Sexton

  Wise, Thinking, Sometimes

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• Poems aren't postcards to send home.

  Anne Sexton

  Home, Postcards

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• I've grown tired of love
  You are the trouble with me
  I watch you walk right by

  Anne Sexton

  Love You, Tired, Watches

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• Somebody who should have been born is gone.

  Anne Sexton

  Should Have, Abortion, Gone

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.56, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A woman who writes feels too much.

  Anne Sexton

  Writing, Too Much, Feels

  Anne Sexton, Linda Gray Sexton, Lois Ames (2004). “Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters”, p.86, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I am younger each year at the first snow.

  Anne Sexton

  Years, Snow, Firsts

  Anne Sexton, Linda Gray Sexton, Lois Ames (2004). “Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters”, p.45, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Maybe I am becoming a hermit, opening the door for only a few special animals? Maybe my skull is too crowded and it has no opening through which to feed it soup?

  Anne Sexton

  Animal, Doors, Skulls

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

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• The day of fire is coming, the thrush
  will fly ablaze like a little sky rocket.

  Anne Sexton

  Fire, Sky, Rockets

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

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• It would be pleasant to be drunk.

  Anne Sexton

  Drunk, Would Be, Pleasant

  Anne Sexton (1964). “Selected poems”

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• I have forgiven all the old actors for dying.
  A new one comes on with the same lines,
  like large white growths, in his mouth.
  The dancers come on from the wings,
  perfectly mated.

  Anne Sexton

  Wings, White, Dancer

  Anne Sexton (1964). “Selected poems”

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• It is in the small things we see it.
  The child's first step,
  as awesome as an earthquake.
  The first time you rode a bike,
  wallowing up the sidewalk.

  Anne Sexton

  Courage, Children, Earthquakes

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

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• Yes, I know.
  Death sits with his key in my lock.
  Not one day is taken for granted.
  Even nursery rhymes have put me in hock.

  Anne Sexton

  Taken, Carpe Diem, Keys

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

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• Sometimes I fly like an eagle but with the wings of a wren

  Anne Sexton

  Life, Eagles, Wings

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

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• I will be steel!
  I will build a steel bridge over my need!
  I will build a bomb shelter over my heart!
  But my future is a secret.
  It is as shy as a mole.

  Anne Sexton

  Strength, Heart, Bridges

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

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• God is only mocked by believers.

  Anne Sexton

  Believer

  Anne Sexton, Linda Gray Sexton, Lois Ames (2004). “Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters”, p.137, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• But suicides have a special language. Like carpenters they want to know which tools. They never ask why build. Twice I have so simply declared myself, have possessed the enemy, eaten the enemy, have taken on his craft, his magic.

  Anne Sexton

  Suicide, Taken, Magic

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.98, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Nature is full of teeth
  that come in one by one, then
  decay,
  fall out.

  Anne Sexton

  Nature, Fall, Teeth

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

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• Do you like me?” No answer. Silence bounced, fell off his tongue and sat between us and clogged my throat. It slaughtered my trust. It tore cigarettes out of my mouth. We exchanged blind words, and I did not cry, I did not beg, but blackness filled my ears, blackness lunged in my heart, and something that had been good, a sort of kindly oxygen, turned into a gas oven.

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  Heart, Oxygen, Silence

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