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Need is not quite belief.

Anne Sexton

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Anne Sexton
Age: 45 †
Born: 1928
Born: November 9
Died: 1974
Died: October 4
Poet
Writer
Newton
Massachusetts
Anne Gray Harvey
Needs
Believe
Quite
Belief
Reality
Need

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life is a trick, life is a kitten in a sack.
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stop the darkness and its amputations and find the real McCoy in the private holiness of my hands.
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I love you. You are closest to my heart, closer than any other human being. You are my extension. You are my prayer. You are my belief in God. For better or worse you inherit me.
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Thief!- how did you crawl into, crawl down alone into the death I wanted so badly and for so long.
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I am your dwarf. I am the enemy within. I am the boss of your dreams. See. Your hand shakes. It is not palsy or booze. It is your Doppelganger trying to get out. Beware...Beware...
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Only my books anoint me, and a few friends, those who reach into my veins.
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Put your mouthful of words away and come with me to watch the lilies open in such a field, growing there like yachts, slowly steering their petals without nurses or clocks.
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Look to your heart that flutters in and out like a moth. God is not indifferent to your need. You have a thousand prayers but God has one.
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I find now, swallowing one teaspoon of pain, that it drops downward to the past where it mixes with last year’s cupful and downward into a decade’s quart and downward into a lifetime’s ocean. I alternate treading water and deadman’s float.
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Today God gives milk / and I have the pail.
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You must be a poet, a lady of evil luck desiring to be what you are not, longing to be what you can only visit.
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I think I've been writing black poems all along, wearing my white mask. I'm always the victim ... but no longer!
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... a starving man doesn't ask what the meal is.
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unless I can shake myself free of my dog, my flag, of my desk, my mind, I find life a bit of a drag. Not always, mind you. Usually I'm like my frying pan useful, graceful, sturdy and with no caper, no plan.
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