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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

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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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In a dream you are never eighty.
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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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Poetry is my life, my postmark, my hands, my kitchen, my face.
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Depression is boring, I think and I would do better to make some soup and light up the cave.
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Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.
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Daisies in water are the longest lasting flower you can give to someone. Fact. Buy daisies. Not roses.
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The grass as bristly and stout as chives and me wondering when the ground will break and me wondering how anything fragile survives
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I'm an empress. I wear an apron. My typewriter writes. It didn't break the way it warned. Even crazy, I'm as nice as a chocolate bar.
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And what of the dead? They lie without shoes in the stone boats. They are more like stone than the sea would be if it stopped. They refuse to be blessed, throat, eye and knucklebone.
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I said, the poets are there I hear them singing and lying around their round table and around me still.
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I am not at home in myself. I am my own stranger.
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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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Images are the heart of poetry ... You're not a poet without imagery.
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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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Be careful of words, / ... they can be both daisies and bruises.
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I am tearing the feathers out of the pillows, waiting, waiting for Daddy to come home and stuff me so full of our infected child that I turn invisible, but married, at last.
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When someone kisses someone or flushes the toilet it is my other who sits in a ball and cries. My other beats a tin drum in my heart. My other hangs up laundry as I try to sleep. My other cries and cries and cries when I put on a cocktail dress.
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I put the gold star up in the front window beside the flag. Alterations is what I know and what I did: hems, gussets and seams.
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One can't build little white picket fences to keep nightmares out.
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