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Give me your skin as sheer as a cobweb, let me open it up and listen in and scoop out the dark.

Anne Sexton

Dark, Giving, Skins

Anne Sexton (2001). “Transformations”, p.38, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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O starry night, This is how I want to die

Anne Sexton

Night, Want, Dies

Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.49, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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And if I tried to give you something else, something outside myself, you would not know that the worst of anyone can be, finally, an accident of hope

Anne Sexton

Giving, Worst, Knows

Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.26, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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I like you; your eyes are full of language." [Letter to Anne Clarke, July 3, 1964.]

Anne Sexton

I Like You, Eye, July

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But my future is a secret. / It is as shy as a mole.

Anne Sexton

Future, Secret, Moles

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

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The fish are naked.
The fish are always awake.
They are the color of old spoons
and caramels.

Anne Sexton

Color, Naked, Spoons

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Today God gives milk / and I have the pail.

Anne Sexton

God, Giving, Today

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

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... man is eating the earth up like a candy bar.

Anne Sexton

Men, Bars, Earth

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

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I grow old on my bitterness.

Anne Sexton

Bitterness, Grows

Thomas Kinsella, Douglas Livingstone, Anne Sexton (1968). “Poems”

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When the cow gives blood
and the Christ is born
we must all eat sacrifices.
We must all eat beautiful women.

Anne Sexton

Beautiful, Christmas, God

Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.200, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Take your foot out of the graveyard, they are busy being dead.

Anne Sexton

Feet, Busy, Graveyard

Anne Sexton, “A Curse Against Elegies”

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And we are magic talking to itself, noisy and alone. I am queen of all my sins forgotten. Am I still lost? Once I was beautiful. Now I am myself

Anne Sexton

Beautiful, Queens, Talking

Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.10, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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The grass as bristly and stout as chives and me wondering when the ground will break and me wondering how anything fragile survives

Anne Sexton

Wonder, Break, Grass

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

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women are born twice.

Anne Sexton

Born

Anne Sexton, Linda Gray Sexton, Lois Ames (2004). “Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters”, p.246, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Home is my Bethlehem,
my succoring shelter,
my mental hospital,
my wife, my dam,
my husband, my sir,
my womb, my skull.

Anne Sexton

Husband, Home, Skulls

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

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All in all, I'd say,
the world is strangling.

Anne Sexton

World, Strangling

Anne Sexton, “As It Was Written”

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Need is not quite belief.

Anne Sexton

Believe, Reality, Needs

Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.57, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Once I was a couple. I was my own king and queen
with cheese and bread and rosé on the rocks of Rockport.

Anne Sexton

Queens, Kings, Couple

Anne Sexton (1996). “El Asesino y otros poemas”, p.73, Icaria Editorial

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Not that it was beautiful, but that I found some order there.

Anne Sexton

Beautiful, Order, Found

Anne Sexton (1964). “Selected poems”

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There is hope.
There is hope everywhere.
Today God give milk
and I have the pail.

Anne Sexton

Hope, Snow, Giving

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

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Loving me with my shoes off
means loving my long brown legs,
sweet dears, as good as spoons;
and my feet, those two children
let out to play naked.

Anne Sexton

Sweet, Children, Mean

Anne Sexton (1999). “Love Poems”, p.35, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Take adultery or theft.
Merely sins.
It is evil who dines on the soul,
stretching out its long bone tongue.
It is evil who tweezers my heart,
picking out its atomic worms.

Anne Sexton

Heart, Long, Evil

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

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It was as if a morning-glory had bloomed in her throat, and all that blue and small pollen ate into my heart, violent and religious

Anne Sexton

Religious, Morning, Heart

Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.211, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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I'm an empress.
I wear an apron.
My typewriter writes.
It didn't break the way it warned.
Even crazy, I'm as nice
as a chocolate bar.

Anne Sexton

Crazy, Nice, Writing

Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.118, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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.

Anne Sexton

Life, Regret, Details

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

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Born: November 9, 1928
Died: October 4, 1974
Occupation: Poet
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