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Quote by Anne Sexton

“A woman like that is misunderstood. I have been her kind.”

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Anne Sexton was an American poet known for her confessional and autobiographical poetry. Her works delved deeply into personal pain, family relationships, and social issues, profoundly influencing 20th-century poetry. more

“We are America. We are the coffin fillers. We are the grocers of death. We pack them in crates like cauliflowers. The bomb opens like a shoebox. And the child? The child is certainly not yawning. And the woman? The woman is bathing her heart. It has been torn out of her and as a last act she is rinsing it off in the river. This is the death market. America, where are your credentials?”

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Author:Anne Sexton

“Nos cortaron las alas, y fue entonces, cuando decidimos volar más alto.”

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Book:Las cenizas de nuestro incendio

Source: Las cenizas de nuestro incendio

“with his words in my head I slept for thirty or forty forevers while the grass shrieked and the trees tremored it was crazy letting my youth pass like that giving myself up to the abstract fears balconies collapsing over the east river as far as the eye could see until all is miniature wind over water without end when I am dead I will have something to say about death & all the men stretched out a girl must be a graveyard I am a descendant of fields and want to keep my mind off it, especially”

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Book:The Last Usable Hour

Source: The Last Usable Hour

“Love me like a poet loves the pain.”

Love Poet Poem

Author:Nitya Prakash

“Say, I am the air I break; or say, I am a spool unwinding.”

Poetry Air Poem

Author:Anne Sexton

“immaculate middle-of-the-night quiet rainlessness the late moony sadness of the one specific mosquito dear someone you habituate me to the invisible I exit through you not as myself”

Poetry Poem Lovely Mysterious Middle Of The Night Descriptive Atmospheric Deborah Landau The Last Usable Hour

Book:The Last Usable Hour

Source: The Last Usable Hour

“A quarter millennium later, Emily Dickinson would write in a poem the central metaphor of which draws on Kepler’s legacy: Each that we lose takes part of us; A crescent still abides, Which like the moon, some turbid night, Is summoned by the tides.”

Loss Poem Emily Dickinson

Book:Figuring

Source: Figuring

“With you I gather dandelions and daisies. With you I gather the ocean and the rain. With you I gather all or nothing. With you I gather hope.”

Love Poem

Author:Nitya Prakash

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