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We are all writing God's poem.

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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God
Writing

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I am alone here in my own mind. There is no map and there is no road. It is one of a kind just as yours is.
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Be careful of words, / ... they can be both daisies and bruises.
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Meanwhile in my head, I’m undergoing open-heart surgery.
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Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.
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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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Let there be a heaven so that man may outlive his grasses.
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I am a collection of dismantled almosts.
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Once upon a time we were all born, popped out like jelly rolls forgetting our fishdom, the pleasuring seas, the country of comfort, spanked into the oxygens of death.
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As it has been said: Love and a cough cannot be concealed. Even a small cough. Even a small love.
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it was my first doll that water went into and water came out of much earlier it was the diaper I wore and the dirt thereof and my mother hating me for it
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Jesus saw the multitudes were hungry and He said, Oh Lord, send down a short-order cook.
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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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I am torn in two but I will conquer myself.
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Inside many of us is a small old man who wants to get out.
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The sanest thing in this world is love.
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bike downtown, stick out tongues at the Catholics. Or form a Piss Club where we all go in the bushes and peek at each other's sex.
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being sixteen in the pants I died full of questions
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My heart is on a budget. It keeps me on the brink.
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Only my books anoint me, and a few friends, those who reach into my veins.
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Of course the New Testament is very small. Its mouth opens four times as out-of-date as a prehistoric monster, yet somehow man-made.
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