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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.

Anne Sexton

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Anne Sexton
Age: 45 †
Born: 1928
Born: November 9
Died: 1974
Died: October 4
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Newton
Massachusetts
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Home is my Bethlehem, my succoring shelter, my mental hospital, my wife, my dam, my husband, my sir, my womb, my skull.
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Maybe I am becoming a hermit, opening the door for only a few special animals? Maybe my skull is too crowded and it has no opening through which to feed it soup?
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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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I keep feeling that there isn't one poem being written by any one of us - or a book or anything like that. The whole life of us writers, the whole product I guess I mean, is the one long poem - a community effort if you will. It's all the same poem. It doesn't belong to any one writer - it's God's poem perhaps. Or God's people's poem.
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There is no word for time. Today we will not think to number another summer or watch its white bird into the ground.
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Rejoice with the day lily for it is born for a day to live by the mailbox and glorify the roadside
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The boys and girls are one tonight. They unbutton blouses. They unzip flies. They take off shoes. They turn off the light. The glimmering creatures are full of lies. They are eating each other. They are overfed. At night, alone, I marry the bed.
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It's a little mad, but I believe I am many people. When I am writing a poem, I feel I am the person who should have written it.
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Sometimes I fly like an eagle but with the wings of a wren
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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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Daylight is nobody's friend. God comes in like a landlord and flashes on his brassy lamp.
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With this pen I take in hand my selves and with these dead disciples I will grapple. Though rain curses the window let the poem be made.
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Take your foot out of the graveyard, they are busy being dead.
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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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To tell the truth days are all the same size and words aren't much company.
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So I won't hang around in my hospital shift, repeating The Black Mass and all of it. I say Live, Live because of the sun, the dream, the excitable gift.
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I cannot walk an inch / without trying to walk to God.
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Love your self's self where it lives.
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Some women marry houses. It's another kind of skin it has a heart, a mouth, a liver and bowel movements.
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For I could not read or speak and on the long nights I could not turn the moon off or count the lights of cars across the ceiling.
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