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To love another is something
like prayer and it can't be planned, you just fall
into its arms because your belief undoes your disbelief.

— Anne Sexton The Complete Poems (1981)

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You said the anger would come back
just as the love did.

Love Poems (1969)

Dearest,
although everything has happened,
nothing has happened.

All My Pretty Ones (1962)

I imitate
a memory of belief
that I do not own.

To Bedlam and Part Way Back (1960)

We are all writing God's poem.

My eyes, those sluts, those whores, would play no more.

The Book of Folly (1972)

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Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind,
And therefore is wing'd Cupid painted blind.

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Bertrand Russell Marriage and Morals (1929)

Not for the body, but for the heart; companion and company are needed.

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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.

Alexander Pope

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