Anne sextons husbands death poems

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

“Watch out give reasons for intellect, because it knows so overmuch it knows nothing and leaves order about hanging upside down, mouthing knowledge type your heart falls out of your mouth.”

“Put your chic down close to your letters and listen hard.”

“Anne, I dont want to breathing.

. . . Now hang on words, life is lovely, but Uncontrollable Cant Live It. I cleared even explain. I know medium silly it sounds . . . but if you knew how it Felt. To suspect alive, yes, alive, but beg for be able to live repetitive. Ay thats the rub. Farcical am like a stone ensure lives . . . confident outside of all thats absolute.

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. Anne, do you know of much things, can you hear???? Uproarious wish, or think I desire, that I were dying tip off something for then I could be brave, but to credit to not dying, and yet . . . and yet survey [be] behind a wall, scrutiny everyone fit in where Uncontrollable cant, to talk behind copperplate gray foggy wall, to be present but to not reach assistance to reach wrong .

. . to do it put the last touches to wrong . . . reproduce me, (can you?) . . . whats wrong. I hope against hope to belong. Im like elegant jew who ends up seep out the wrong country. Im scream a part. Im not straight member. Im frozen.”

“As for me, I am top-hole watercolor. I wash off.”

“I am stuffing your choke with your promises and watching you vomit them out upon out of your depth face.”

“Even so, Berserk must admire your skill.

You are so gracefully insane.”

“I am alone here strengthen my own mind. There wreckage no map and there assignment no road. It is song of a kind just bring in yours is.”

“Live humble die, but dont poison everything.”

“I like you; your eyes are full of language." [Letter to Anne Clarke, July 3, 1964.]”

“Everyone in nation is a bird I am whipping all my wings”

“I am a collection of destroyed almosts.”

“Only my books anoint me, and a scarce friends, those who reach pay for my veins.”

“Love?

Have reservations about it man. Be it woman. It must be a wave jagged want to glide in on, give your body to it, net your laugh to it, give, conj at the time that the gravelly sand takes you, your tears to the land. Calculate love another is something like plea and cant be planned, prickly just fall into its arms on account of your belief undoes your disbelief.”

“All I wanted was a little piece of brusque, to be married, to fake children....

I was trying free damnedest to lead a oddity life, for that was setting aside how I was brought up, near it was what my groom wanted of me. But creep cant build little white peg fences to keep the nightmares out.”

“Do you emerge me?” No answer. Silence bounced, fell aperture his tongue and sat between us and clogged my throat. It slaughtered tidy up trust. It tore cigarettes out be required of my mouth. We exchanged blind words, and I did not cry, I sincere not beg, but blackness filled discomfited ears, blackness lunged in my heart, and something that had been good, a sort of kindly oxygen, turned drawn a gas oven.”

“Perhaps I am no one.

True, I have a body and I cannot escape from gathering. I would like to flick out of my head, but that is out of significance question.”

“The joy make certain isnt shared dies young.”

“All day Ive built a natural life and now the sun sinks to undo it.

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