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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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Love your self's self where it lives.
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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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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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I try to take care and be gentle to them. Words and eggs must be handled with care. Once broken they are impossible things to repair.
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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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All the oxygen of the world was in them. All the feet of the babies of the world were in them. All the crotches of the angels of the world were in them. All the morning kisses of Philadelphia were in them.
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I grow old on my bitterness.
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Here in the hospital, I say,that is not my body, not my body.I am not here for the doctorsto read like a recipe.
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All in all, I'd say, the world is strangling.
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One of my secret instructions to myself as a poet is Whatever you do, don't be boring.
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you see, we live in a cold climate and are not permitted to kiss on the street so I made up a song that wasn't true. I made up a song called Marriage.
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Our children tremble in their teen-age cribs, whirling off on a thumb or a motorcycle.
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God went out of me as if the sea dried up like sandpaper, as if the sun became a latrine.
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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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Nature is full of teeth that come in one by one, then decay, fall out.
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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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I was the girl of the chain letter, the girl full of talk of coffins and keyholes, the one of the telephone bills, the wrinkled photo and the lost connections.
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We are America. We are the coffin fillers. We are the grocers of death. We pack them in crates like cauliflowers.
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Thumbs grow into my throat. I wear slaps like a spot of rouge.
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