“As it has been said: Love and a cough cannot be concealed. Even a small cough. Even a small love.”
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Anne Sexton was an American poet, known for her highly personal, confessional verse. She won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1967 for her book Live or Die. Her poetry details her long battle with depression, suicidal tendencies, and various intimate details from her private life, including her relationships with her husband and children. from Wikipedia
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“As it has been said: Love and a cough cannot be concealed. Even a small cough. Even a small love.”
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“Watch out for intellect, because it knows so much it knows nothing and leaves you hanging upside down, mouthing knowledge as your heart falls out of your mouth.”
“Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.”
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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 wor...”
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“Live or die, but don't poison everything.”
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“Even without wars, life is dangerous.”
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“I am stuffing your mouth with your promises and watching you vomit them out upon my face.”
“Only my books anoint me, and a few friends, those who reach into my veins.”
“Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.”
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“Her Kind I have gone out, a possessed witch, haunting the black air, braver at night; dreaming evil, I have done my hitch over the plain houses, light by light: lonely thing, twelve-fingered...”
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“I am God, la de dah.”
“Fee-fi-fo-fum - Now I'm borrowed. Now I'm numb.”
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“Live or die, but don't poison everything... Well, death's been here for a long time -- it has a hell of a lot to do with hell and suspicion of the eye and the religious objects and how I mou...”
“Words Be careful of words, even the miraculous ones. For the miraculous we do our best, sometimes they swarm like insects and leave not a sting but a kiss. They can be as good as fingers. Th...”
“That’s what I do: I make coffee and occasionally succumb to suicidal nihilism. But you shouldn’t worry — poetry is still first. Cigarettes and alcohol follow”
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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”
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“Many women are singing together of this: one is in a shoe factory cursing the machine, one is at the aquarium tending a seal, one is dull at the wheel of her Ford, one is at the toll gate co...”
“Those moments before a poem comes, when the heightened awareness comes over you, and you realize a poem is buried there somewhere, you prepare yourself. I run around, you know, kind of skipp...”
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“Some women marry houses.”
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“Anne, I don't want to live. . . . Now listen, life is lovely, but I Can't Live It. I can't even explain. I know how silly it sounds . . . but if you knew how it Felt. To be alive, yes, alive...”
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