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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
Prayer
Poetry

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With this pen I take in hand my selves and with these dead disciples I will grapple. Though rain curses the window let the poem be made.
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sorrow is easier than guilt.
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Images are the heart of poetry ... You're not a poet without imagery.
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I put the gold star up in the front window beside the flag. Alterations is what I know and what I did: hems, gussets and seams.
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I sit at my desk each night with no place to go, opening the wrinkled maps of Milwaukee and Buffalo, the whole U.S., its cemeteries, its arbitrary time zones, through routes like small veins, capitals like small stones.
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Of course the New Testament is very small. Its mouth opens four times as out-of-date as a prehistoric monster, yet somehow man-made.
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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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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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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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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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Love your self's self where it lives.
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The future is a fog that is still hanging out over the sea, a boat that floats home or does not. The trade winds blow me, and I do not know where the land is the waves fold over each other they are in love with themselves sleeping in their own skin and I float over them and I do not know about tomorrow.
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It would be pleasant to be drunk.
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In a dream you are never eighty.
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I was spread out dailyand examined for flaws.
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I would like a simple life / yet all night I am laying / poems away in a long box.
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Suicide is, after all, the opposite of the poem.
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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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All day I've built a lifetime and now the sun sinks to undo it.
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My eyes, those sluts, those whores, would play no more.
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