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"Do you know that you are the father that never loved me, the lover who made me a woman, the friend who taught me how to enjoy life, the brother to share laughter with, the son I'd like to have. Do you know?" -From a letter to Alfred "Kayo" Sexton, Sept. 27th, 1963

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Anne Sexton @anne-sexton.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

The town does not exist except where one black-haired tree slips up like a drowned woman into the hot sky. The town is silent. The night boils with eleven stars. Oh starry starry night! This is how I want to die.

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Solivagant @wanderingsag.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

All night dark wings flopping in my heart. Each an ambition bird. ~Anne Sexton, The Ambition Bird

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Anne Sexton @anne-sexton.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Live or die, but don't poison everything . . .

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Anne Sexton @anne-sexton.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Having come this far I will go farther.

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Anne Sexton @anne-sexton.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Turn, my hungers! For once make a deliberate decision.

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Anne Sexton @anne-sexton.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

"The vein I'm still tapping is so inward that I dare not bring forth poems . . . that my ambition to write good poems is going to stop me from daring to write bad ones." -From a letter to Brother Dennis Farrell, Dec. 26th, 1962

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Anne Sexton @anne-sexton.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Jesus saw the multitudes were hungry and He said, Oh Lord, send down a short-order cook. And the Lord said, Abracadabra.

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Anne Sexton @anne-sexton.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Although there are chairs I lie on the floor.

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Anne Sexton @anne-sexton.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

🎄 Christmas, 1952 🎄 "Am pregnant - a little - with Linda!"

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Anne Sexton @anne-sexton.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

La la la, Oh music swims back to me and I can feel the tune they played the night they left me in this private institution on a hill.

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Anne Sexton @anne-sexton.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Live or die, but don't poison everything . . .

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Anne Sexton @anne-sexton.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Today an interne knocks my knees, testing for reflexes. Once I would have winked and begged for dope. Today I am terribly patient. Today crows play black-jack on the stethoscope.

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Anne Sexton @anne-sexton.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Closer and closer comes the hour of my death as I rearrange my face, grow back, grow undeveloped and straight-haired. All this is death.

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Anne Sexton @anne-sexton.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

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. As for me, I am watercolor. I wash off.

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Anne Sexton @anne-sexton.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

I am surprised to see that the ocean is still going on.

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Anne Sexton @anne-sexton.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

"When I read your poem, that first time, leafing through the anthology, it walked out at me and grew like a bone inside of my heart." -Anne Sexton in a letter to W.D. Snodgrass about his poem "Hearts Needle."

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Anne Sexton @anne-sexton.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

True. There is a beautiful Jesus. He is frozen to his bones like a chunk of beef. How desperately he wanted to pull his arms in! How desperately I touch his vertical and horizontal axes! But I can't. Need is not quite belief.

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Anne Sexton @anne-sexton.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Anne Sexton domesticates my terror, examines it and describes it, teaches it some tricks which will amuse me, then lets it gallop wild in my forest once more. -Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.

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Marcelo Figueras @marcelofigueras.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

"Como ha sido dicho: El amor y la tos No pueden ser ocultados. Ni siquiera una pequeña tos. Ni siquiera un pequeño amor". “As it has been said: Love and a cough cannot be concealed. Even a small cough. Even a small love.” ― Anne Sexton

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Anne Sexton @anne-sexton.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Turn, my hungers! For once make a deliberate decision.

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Anne Sexton @anne-sexton.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

This is madness but a kind of hunger.

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Anne Sexton @anne-sexton.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Death starts like a dream, full of objects and my sister's laughter.

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Stone Circle Review @stonecirclereview.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

“Always this sense the writer has, a kind of messianic thing: who will tell it if I do not? This is your assignment: to record it, to get it down.” -- Maxine Kumin

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Vanishing Point @marksonbot.bsky.social · 16/08/2024

The friendship of Anne Sexton and Maxine Kumin.

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Anne Sexton @anne-sexton.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

A woman who writes feels too much, As if cycles and children and islands weren't enough; as if mourners and gossips and vegetables were never enough. She thinks she can warn the stars. A writer is essentially a spy. Dear love, I am that girl.

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Dr. Elle, Her Celestial Majesty ✨👑🌌 @abstractica.bsky.social · 14/08/2024

— Anne Sexton, letter to W.D. Snodgrass ㅤ

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Solivagant @wanderingsag.bsky.social · 28/07/2024

I taught myself to name my name, To bark back, to loosen love and crying, ~W.D. Snodgrass

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Anne Sexton @anne-sexton.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

I was tired of being a woman, tired of the spoons and the pots, tired of my mouth and my breasts, tired of the cosmetics and the silks.

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Anne Sexton @anne-sexton.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

RATS LIVE ON NO EVIL STAR A palindrome seen on the side of a barn in Ireland.

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