Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.

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About Anne Sexton

Portrait of Anne Sexton

Anne Sexton (born Anne Gray Harvey; November 9, 1928 – October 4, 1974) was an American poet known for her highly personal, confessional verse. She won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1967 for her book Live or Die. Her poetry often drew on her experiences with mental illness, including...

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Oh, darling, let your body in, let it tie you in, in comfort.

I am not at home in myself. I am my own stranger.

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There are times when you want to stop working at faith and just be washed in a blowing wind that tells you everything.

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When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

—Ernest Hemingway

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I wrote a song, but I can't read music, so I don't know what it is. Every once in a while I'll be listening to the radio, and I say, "I think I might have written that.

—Steven Wright

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Listening, not imitation, may be the sincerest form of flattery.

—Dr. Joyce Brothers

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The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.

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History

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