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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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Not that it was beautiful, but that, in the end, there was a certain sense of order there something worth learning in that narrow diary of my mind
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I did not know the woman I would be nor that blood would bloom in me each month like an exotic flower, nor that children, two monuments, would break from between my legs.
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We are all writing God's poem.
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I am not at home in myself. I am my own stranger.
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I have forgiven all the old actors for dying. A new one comes on with the same lines, like large white growths, in his mouth. The dancers come on from the wings, perfectly mated.
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And within the house ashes are being stuffed into my marriage, fury is lapping the walls, dishes crack on the shelves, a strangler needs my throat, the daughter has ceased to eat anything.
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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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Yesterday I did not want to be borrowed but this is the typewriter that sits before me and love is where yesterday is at.
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I cannot walk an inch / without trying to walk to God.
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Blue eyes wash off sometimes.
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There is joy in all: in the hair I brush each morning, in the Cannon towel, newly washed, that I rub my body with each morning.
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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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Poets are sitting in my kitchen. Why do these poets lie? Why do children get children and Did you hear what it said?
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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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The soul was not cured, it was as full as a clothes closet of dresses that did not fit.
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As a writer one has to take the chance on being a fool.
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Images are the heart of poetry ... You're not a poet without imagery.
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Once I was beautiful. Now I am myself, Counting this row and that row of moccasins Waiting on the silent shelf.
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