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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
Even
Sex
Saying
Feeling
Feelings
Beautiful
Better
Whole
Writing
Poem

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being sixteen in the pants I died full of questions
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To tell the truth days are all the same size and words aren't much company.
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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 would like a simple life / yet all night I am laying / poems away in a long box.
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I’m lost. And it’s my own fault. It’s about time I figured out that I can’t ask people to keep me found.
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For forty days, for forty nights Jesus put one foot in front of the other and the man he carried, if it was a man, became heavier and heavier.
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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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Take adultery or theft. Merely sins. It is evil who dines on the soul, stretching out its long bone tongue. It is evil who tweezers my heart, picking out its atomic worms.
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O yellow eye, let me be sick with your heat, let me be feverish and frowning.
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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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We talked death with burned-up intensity, both of us drawn to it like moths to an electric light bulb. Sucking on it!
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Sometimes I fly like an eagle but with the wings of a wren
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But suicides have a special language. Like carpenters they want to know which tools. They never ask why build. Twice I have so simply declared myself, have possessed the enemy, eaten the enemy, have taken on his craft, his magic.
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Not that it was beautiful, but that I found some order there.
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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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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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Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.
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