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Anne Sexton Quotes: 11

As it has been said:Love and a coughcannot be concealed.Even a small cough.Even a small love.
Watch out for intellect,because it knows so much it knows nothingand leaves you hanging upside down,mouthing knowledge as your heartfalls out of your mouth.
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Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.
I am stuffing your mouth with yourpromises and watching you vomit them out upon my face.
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Live or die, but don't poison everything.
Only my books anoint me, and a few friends, those who reach into my veins.
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Do you like me?”No answer.Silence bounced, fell off his tongueand sat between usand 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.
Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.
I am God, la de dah.
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Fee-fi-fo-fum -Now I'm borrowed.Now I'm numb.
The grass as bristly and stout as chives and me wondering when the ground will break and me wondering how anything fragile survives