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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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I was spread out dailyand examined for flaws.
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It's a little mad, but I believe I am many people. When I am writing a poem, I feel I am the person who should have written it.
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I, in my brand new body, which was not a woman's yet, told the stars my questions and thought God could really see the heat and the painted light, elbows, knees, dreams, goodnight.
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I remember the stink of the liverwurst. How I was put on a platter and laid between the mayonnaise and the bacon. The rhythm of the refrigerator had been disturbed.
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Emerald as heavy as a golf course, ruby as dark as an afterbirth, diamond as white as sun on the sea.
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... man is eating the earth up like a candy bar.
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this is no dream just my oily life where the people are alibis and the street is unfindable for an entire lifetime.
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In an old time there was a king as wise as a dictionary.
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Despite my asbestos gloves, the cough is filling me with black, and a red powder seeps through my veins.
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I wonder if the artist ever lives his life--he is so busy recreating it.
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When I'm writing, I know I'm doing the thing I was born to do.
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My heart is on a budget. It keeps me on the brink.
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I did not know the woman I would be nor that blood would bloom in me each month like an exotic flower, nor that children, two monuments, would break from between my legs.
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Our checks are pale. Our wallets are invalids. Past due, past due, is what our bills are saying and yet we kiss in every corner, scuffing the dust and the cat. Love rises like bread as we go bust.
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The place I live in is a kind of maze and I keep seeking the exit or the home.
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