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I would like to bury all the hating eyes under the sand somewhere.

I would like to bury all the hating eyes under the sand somewhere.

Anne Sexton
Hate, Eye, Sand
Anne Sexton (1974). “The death notebooks”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

No one to hate except the slim fish of memory that slides in and out of my brain.

Anne Sexton
Memories, Hate, Brain
Anne Sexton (1976). “45 Mercy Street”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

Now I am just an elderly lady who is full of spleen, who humps around greater Boston in a God-awful hat, who never lived and yet outlived her time, hating men and dogs and Democrats.

Anne Sexton
Dog, Hate, Men
Anne Sexton (1978). “Words for Dr. Y.: uncollected poems with three stories”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

She suffers according to the digits of my hate. I hear the filaments of alabaster. I would lie down with them and lift my madness off like a wig. I would lie outside in a room of wool and let the snow cover me. Paris white or flake white or argentine, all in the washbasin of my mouth, calling “Oh.” I am empty. I am witless. Death is here. There is no other settlement.

Anne Sexton
Hate, Lying, Paris
Anne Sexton, “Oh”

it was my first doll that water went into and water came out of much earlier it was the diaper I wore and the dirt thereof and my mother hating me for it

Anne Sexton
Mother, Hate, Water

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