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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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At six I lived in a graveyard full of dolls, avoiding myself, my body, the suspect in its grotesque house.
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I who was a house full of bowel movement, I who was a defaced altar, I who wanted to crawl toward God could not move nor eat bread.
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Letters are false really - they are expressions of the way you wish you were instead of the way you are.
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I am crazy as hell, but I know it. And knowing it is a kind of sanity that makes the sickness worse.
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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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You cutting the lawn, fixing the machines, all this leprous day and then more vodka, more soda and the pond forgiving our bodies, the pond sucking out the throb.
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All who love have lied.
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Once I was a couple. I was my own king and queen with cheese and bread and rosé on the rocks of Rockport.
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Everyone has left me except my muse, that good nurse. She stays in my hand, a mild white mouse.
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My faith is a great weight hung on a small wire, as doth the spider hang her baby on a thin web.
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In a letter (no matter how quickly it is written or honestly or freely or lovingly) it is more possible to be loving and lovable, more possible to reach out and to take in ... I feel I have somehow deceived you into thinking this is really a human relationship. It is a letter relationship between humans.
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One can't build little white picket fences to keep nightmares out.
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Writers are such phonies: they sometimes have wise insights but they don't live by them at all. That's what writers are like...you think they know something, but usually they are just messes.
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... and my love stays bitterly glowing, spasms of it will not sleep, and I am helpless and thirsty and need shade but there is no one to cover me- not even God.
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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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What a lay me down this is with two pink, two orange, two green, two white goodnights.
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Even without wars, life is dangerous.
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Today life opened inside me like an egg.
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I was only sitting here in my white study with the awful black words pushing me around.
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The Saints come, as human as a mouth, with a bag of God in their backs, like a hunchback, they come, they come marching in.
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