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The beautiful feeling after writing a poem is on the whole better even than after sex, and that's saying a lot.

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
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Writing
Poem
Even
Sex
Saying
Feeling
Feelings
Beautiful
Better

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I'll Vacuum up my stale hair, I'll pay all my neighbors' bad debts, I'll write a poem called Yellow and put my lips down to drink it up.
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I'm hunting for the truth. It might be a kind of poetic truth, and not just a factual one, because behind everything that happens to you, there is another truth, a secret life.
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Fee-fi-fo-fum - Now I'm borrowed. Now I'm numb.
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Images are the heart of poetry ... You're not a poet without imagery.
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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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Someone is dead. Even the trees know it, those poor old dancers who come on lewdly, all pea-green scarfs and spine pole.
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I tell you what you’ll never really know: all the medical hypothesis that explained my brain will never be as true as these struck leaves letting go.
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Earth, earthriding your merry-go-roundtoward extinction,right to the rootsthickening the oceans like gravy,festering in your caves,you are becoming a latrine.
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The future is a fog that is still hanging out over the sea, a boat that floats home or does not. The trade winds blow me, and I do not know where the land is the waves fold over each other they are in love with themselves sleeping in their own skin and I float over them and I do not know about tomorrow.
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I am in my own mind. I am locked in the wrong house.
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...became a woman who learned her own skin and dug into her soul and found it full.
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My mouth blooms like a cut.
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Maybe I am becoming a hermit, opening the door for only a few special animals? Maybe my skull is too crowded and it has no opening through which to feed it soup?
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She is so naked and singular. She is the sum of yourself and your dream. Climb her like a monument, step after step. She is solid.
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And within the house ashes are being stuffed into my marriage, fury is lapping the walls, dishes crack on the shelves, a strangler needs my throat, the daughter has ceased to eat anything.
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We are all writing God's poem.
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All I am is the trick of words writing themselves.
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It doesn't matter who my father was it matters who I remember he was.
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