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When I'm writing, I know I'm doing the thing I was born to do.

Anne Sexton

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Anne Sexton
Age: 45 †
Born: 1928
Born: November 9
Died: 1974
Died: October 4
Poet
Writer
Newton
Massachusetts
Anne Gray Harvey
Inspirational
Writing
Thing
Born

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Fear / a motor, / pumps me around and around / until I fade slowly.
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You must be a poet, a lady of evil luck desiring to be what you are not, longing to be what you can only visit.
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I rot on the wall, my own Dorian Gray.
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Don't bite till you know if it's bread or stone.
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Fee-fi-fo-fum - Now I'm borrowed. Now I'm numb.
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Poets are sitting in my kitchen. Why do these poets lie? Why do children get children and Did you hear what it said?
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All considerations for these human remains! They must have an escort! They are classified!
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I lay there silently, hoarding my small dignity. I did not ask about the gate or the closet. I did not question the bedtime ritual where, on the cold bathroom tiles, I was spread out daily and examined for flaws. I did not know that my bones, those solids, those pieces of sculpture would not splinter.
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The town is silent. The night boils with eleven stars. Oh starry starry night! This is how I want to die.
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Yes I try to kill myself in small amounts, an innocuous occupation. Actually I'm hung up on it.
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A woman / who loves a woman / is forever young.
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I keep feeling that there isn't one poem being written by any one of us - or a book or anything like that. The whole life of us writers, the whole product I guess I mean, is the one long poem - a community effort if you will. It's all the same poem. It doesn't belong to any one writer - it's God's poem perhaps. Or God's people's poem.
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Suicides have a special language. Like carpenters they want to know which tools. They never ask why build.
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Inside many of us is a small old man who wants to get out.
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Perhaps I am no one. True, I have a body and I cannot escape from it. I would like to fly out of my head, but that is out of the question.
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[I] have fantasies of killing myself and thus being the powerful one not the powerless one.
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My faith is a great weight hung on a small wire, as doth the spider hang her baby on a thin web.
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I burn the way money burns.
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I tell it stories now and then and feed it images like honey. I will not speculate today with poems that think they're money.
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I was spread out dailyand examined for flaws.
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