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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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And the aura of you remains, remains, remains...
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The little girl skipped by under the wrinkled oak leaves and held fast to a replica of herself.
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being sixteen in the pants I died full of questions
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Fear / a motor, / pumps me around and around / until I fade slowly.
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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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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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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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What's missing is the eyeballs in each of us, but it doesn't matter because you've got the bucks, the bucks, the bucks.
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Everyone has left me except my muse, that good nurse. She stays in my hand, a mild white mouse.
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I rot on the wall, my own Dorian Gray.
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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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Father, you died once, salted down at fifty-nine, packed down like a big snow angel, wasn't that enough?
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The tongue, the Chinese say, is like a sharp knife: it kills without drawing blood.
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I think of myself as writing for one person, that one perfect reader who understands and loves.
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Nature is full of teeth that come in one by one, then decay, fall out.
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I am torn in two but I will conquer myself.
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The day of fire is coming, the thrush will fly ablaze like a little sky rocket.
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God is only mocked by believers.
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Now I am going back And I have ripped my hand From your hand as I said I would And I have made it this far.
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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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