“We all walk softly away.
We would stay and be the nurse but
there are too many of us and we are too worried to help.
It is love that walks away
and yet we have terrible mouths
and soft milk hands.
We worry with like.
We walk away like love.”

—  Anne Sexton

"To Like, To Love"
Poems 1971-1973 (1981)

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