As it has been said: Love and a cough cannot be concealed. Even a small cough. Even a small love.

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Love Be concealed Small cough 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.

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Watch out Knows nothing Leaves you Hanging

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Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.

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Your ear Down close Your soul Listen hard

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I am stuffing your mouth with your promises and watching you vomit them out upon my face.

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Stuffing Your mouth Your promises Watching you

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I am alone here in my own mind. There is no map and there is no road. It is one of a kind just as yours is.

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M alone Own mind No map No road

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Live or die, but don't poison everything.

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Live Die Don't poison Everything

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Only my books anoint me, and a few friends, those who reach into my veins.

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My books Anoint me Few friends Reach

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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.

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No one A body Cannot escape To fly

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The joy that isn't shared dies young.

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The joy Shared Dies young

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All day I've built a lifetime and now the sun sinks to undo it.

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All day I've built Lifetime Sun sinks

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Depression is boring, I think and I would do better to make some soup and light up the cave.

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Depression Boring Do better Some soup

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It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.

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Doesn't matter My father I remember He was

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Sometimes the soul takes pictures of things it has wished for, but never seen

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Sometimes The soul Takes pictures Things

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Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.

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Saints have No moderation Do poets Just exuberance

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Don't bite till you know if it's bread or stone.

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Don't bite You know It's bread Stone

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Suicide is, after all, the opposite of the poem.

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Suicide The opposite The poem

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Meanwhile in my head, Iâ€™m undergoing open-heart surgery.

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My head Undergoing Open heart Surgery

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

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Take Your foot Graveyard Are busy

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God owns heaven but He craves the earth.

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God Owns heaven He craves The earth

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The soul was not cured, it was as full as a clothes closet of dresses that did not fit.

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The soul Not cured Clothes closet Dresses

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The beautiful feeling after writing a poem is on the whole better even than after sex, and that's saying a lot.

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Beautiful feeling After writing A poem Whole better

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Suicides have a special language. Like carpenters they want to know which tools. They never ask why build.

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Suicide have Special language Like carpenters Why build

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

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Poetry My life Postmark My hands

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I am crazy as hell, but I know it. And knowing it is a kind of sanity that makes the sickness worse.

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Am crazy I know Kind Sanity

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Without wars Life Is dangerous

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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

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I tried Give you Something else Outside myself

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Death, I need my little addiction to you. I need that tiny voice who, even as I rise from the sea, all woman, all there, says kill me, kill me.

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Death Little addiction I need My voice

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When I'm writing, I know I'm doing the thing I was born to do.

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I'm writing I know I'm doing Was born

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Then all this became history. Your hand found mine. Life rushed to my fingers like a blood clot. Oh, my carpenter, the fingers are rebuilt. They dance with yours

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Become history Your hand Found mine Life rushed

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The future is a fog that is still hanging out over the sea, a boat that floats home or does not.

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The future Still hanging The sea A boat

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"30 Anne Sexton Quotes & Sayings

As it has been said: Love and a cough cannot be concealed. Even a small cough. Even a small love.

Anne Sexton

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.

Anne Sexton

Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.

Anne Sexton

I am stuffing your mouth with your promises and watching you vomit them out upon my face.

Anne Sexton

I am alone here in my own mind. There is no map and there is no road. It is one of a kind just as yours is.

Anne Sexton

Live or die, but don't poison everything.

Anne Sexton

Only my books anoint me, and a few friends, those who reach into my veins.

Anne Sexton

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

The joy that isn't shared dies young.

Anne Sexton

All day I've built a lifetime and now the sun sinks to undo it.

Anne Sexton

Depression is boring, I think and I would do better to make some soup and light up the cave.

Anne Sexton

It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.

Anne Sexton

Sometimes the soul takes pictures of things it has wished for, but never seen

Anne Sexton

Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.

Anne Sexton

Don't bite till you know if it's bread or stone.

Anne Sexton

Suicide is, after all, the opposite of the poem.

Anne Sexton

Meanwhile in my head, Iâ€™m undergoing open-heart surgery.

Anne Sexton

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

Anne Sexton

God owns heaven but He craves the earth.

Anne Sexton

The soul was not cured, it was as full as a clothes closet of dresses that did not fit.

Anne Sexton

The beautiful feeling after writing a poem is on the whole better even than after sex, and that's saying a lot.

Anne Sexton

Suicides have a special language. Like carpenters they want to know which tools. They never ask why build.

Anne Sexton

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

Anne Sexton

I am crazy as hell, but I know it. And knowing it is a kind of sanity that makes the sickness worse.

Anne Sexton

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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

Death, I need my little addiction to you. I need that tiny voice who, even as I rise from the sea, all woman, all there, says kill me, kill me.

Anne Sexton

When I'm writing, I know I'm doing the thing I was born to do.

Anne Sexton

Then all this became history. Your hand found mine. Life rushed to my fingers like a blood clot. Oh, my carpenter, the fingers are rebuilt. They dance with yours

Anne Sexton

The future is a fog that is still hanging out over the sea, a boat that floats home or does not.

Anne Sexton

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