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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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Images are the heart of poetry ... You're not a poet without imagery.
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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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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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Everyone in me is a bird I am beating all my wings
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Now, in my middle age, about nineteen in the head I'd say, I am rowing, I am rowing.
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Look to your heart that flutters in and out like a moth. God is not indifferent to your need. You have a thousand prayers but God has one.
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The fish are naked. The fish are always awake. They are the color of old spoons and caramels.
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Pulling off the fat diamond engagement ring, pulling off the elopement wedding ring, and holding them, clicking them in thumb and forefinger, the indent of twenty-five years, like a tiny rip leaving its mark.
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I think it will be a miracle if I don't someday end up killing myself.
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When the cow gives blood and the Christ is born we must all eat sacrifices. We must all eat beautiful women.
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I would sell my life to avoid the pain that begins in the crib with its bars or perhaps with your first breath when the planets drill your future into you.
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I am not lazy. I am on the amphetamine of the soul. I am, each day, typing out the God my typewriter believes in.
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Not that it was beautiful, but that I found some order there.
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To love another is somethinglike prayer and it can't be planned, you just fallinto its arms because your belief undoes your disbelief.
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Put your mouthful of words away and come with me to watch the lilies open in such a field, growing there like yachts, slowly steering their petals without nurses or clocks.
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And the aura of you remains, remains, remains...
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When they turn the sun on again I'll plant children under it, I'll light up my soul with a match and let it sing.
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I hoard books. They are people who do not leave.
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Rats live on no evil star
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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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