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Poetry to me is prayer.

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
Poetry
Prayer

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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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As for me, I am a watercolor. I wash off.
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Suicide is, after all, the opposite of the poem.
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We are all writing God's poem.
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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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The day of fire is coming, the thrush will fly ablaze like a little sky rocket.
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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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I am stuffing your mouth with your promises and watching you vomit them out upon my face.
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I like you your eyes are full of language. [Letter to Anne Clarke, July 3, 1964.]
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But my future is a secret. / It is as shy as a mole.
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Give me your skin as sheer as a cobweb, let me open it up and listen in and scoop out the dark.
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