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

— Anne Sexton Words for Dr. Y (1978)

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

Love Poems (1969)

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.

The Complete Poems (1981)

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.

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