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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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• 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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• The snow has quietness in it; no songs, no smells, no shouts or traffic. When I speak my own voice shocks me.

  Anne Sexton

  Song, Voice, Smell

  Anne Sexton (1964). “Selected poems”

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• The trouble with therapy is that it makes life go backwards.

  Anne Sexton

  Trouble, Backwards, Therapy

  Anne Sexton, Linda Gray Sexton, Lois Ames (2004). “Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters”, p.191, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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• Let God be some tribal female who is known but forbidden.

  Anne Sexton

  God, Letting Go, Female

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.82, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• She is so naked and singular. She is the sum of yourself and your dream. Climb her like a monument, step after step. She is solid.

  Anne Sexton

  Dream, Steps, Naked

  Anne Sexton (1999). “Love Poems”, p.22, 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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• 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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• Rocks crumble, make new forms,
  oceans move the continents,
  mountains rise up and down like ghosts
  yet all is natural, all is change.

  Anne Sexton

  Change, Nature, Ocean

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

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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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• 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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• Poetry is my life, my postmark, my hands, my kitchen, my face.

  Anne Sexton

  Hands, Kitchen, Faces

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

  Anne Sexton

  Rain, Window, Made

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Poetry to me is prayer.

  Anne Sexton

  Prayer, Poetry

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