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I wonder if the artist ever lives his life--he is so busy recreating it.

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
Lives
Artist
Ever
Life
Recreating
Busy
Wonder

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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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My ideas are a curse. They spring from a radical discontent with the awful order of things. I play clown. I play carpenter. I play nurse. I play witch.
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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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Come, my pretender, my fritter, my bubbler, my chicken biddy! Oh succulent one, it is but one turn in the road and I would be a cannibal!
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True. There is a beautiful Jesus. He is frozen to his bones like a chunk of beef. How desperately he wanted to pull his arms in! How desperately I touch his vertical and horizontal axes! But I can't. Need is not quite belief.
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It's all a matter of history. Brandy is no solace. Librium only lies me down like a dead snow queen. Yes! I am still the criminal.
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When I lie down to love, old dwarf heart shakes her head. Like an imbecile she was born old.
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The snow has quietness in it no songs, no smells, no shouts or traffic. When I speak my own voice shocks me.
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My husband sings Baa Baa black sheep and we pretend that all's certain and good, that the marriage won't end.
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Though rain curses the window let the poem be made.
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I am torn in two but I will conquer myself.
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I suffer for birds and fireflies but not frogs, she said, and threw him across the room. Kaboom! Like a genie out of a samovar, a handsome prince arose in the corner of the bedroom.
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Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.
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life is a trick, life is a kitten in a sack.
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It would be pleasant to be drunk.
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