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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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We talked death with burned-up intensity, both of us drawn to it like moths to an electric light bulb. Sucking on it!
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... man is eating the earth up like a candy bar.
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I leave you, home, when I'm ripped from the doorstep by commerce or fate. Then I submit to the awful subway of the world.
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I am teaching... This year it's kind of like having a love affair with a rhinoceros.
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After a disaster strikes, it can be very devastating and very challenging. You're going to need a lot of strength and energy, and the American Red Cross suggests you go for the high protein items.
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Someone is dead. Even the trees know it, those poor old dancers who come on lewdly, all pea-green scarfs and spine pole.
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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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I find now, swallowing one teaspoon of pain, that it drops downward to the past where it mixes with last year’s cupful and downward into a decade’s quart and downward into a lifetime’s ocean. I alternate treading water and deadman’s float.
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women are born twice.
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She is so naked and singular. She is the sum of yourself and your dream. Climb her like a monument, step after step. She is solid.
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Bless all useful objects, the spoons made of bone, the mattress I cook my dreams upon, the typewriter that is my church with an altar of keys always waiting.
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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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I tell you what you’ll never really know: all the medical hypothesis that explained my brain will never be as true as these struck leaves letting go.
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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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Take a woman talking, purging herself with rhymes, drumming words out like a typewriter, planting words in you like grass seed. You'll move off.
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Everyone in me is a bird I am beating all my wings
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You must be a poet, a lady of evil luck desiring to be what you are not, longing to be what you can only visit.
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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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