Anne Sexton Quotes About Poetry
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I keep feeling that there isn't one poem being written by any one of us - or a book or anything like that. The whole life of us writers, the whole product I guess I mean, is the one long poem - a community effort if you will. It's all the same poem. It doesn't belong to any one writer - it's God's poem perhaps. Or God's people's poem.
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I said, the poets are there I hear them singing and lying around their round table and around me still.
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It's a little mad, but I believe I am many people. When I am writing a poem, I feel I am the person who should have written it.
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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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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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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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This is what poems are: with mercy for the greedy, they are the tongue's wrangle, the world's pottage, the rat's star.
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Now that I have written many words, and let out so many loves, for so many, and been altogether what I always was a woman of excess, of zeal and greed, I find the effort useless.
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Watch out for intellect, because it knows so much it knows nothing and leaves you hanging upside down, mouthing knowledge as your heart falls out of your mouth.
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My business is words. Words are like labels, or coins, or better, like swarming bees.
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I was only sitting here in my white study with the awful black words pushing me around.
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I tell it stories now and then and feed it images like honey. I will not speculate today with poems that think they're money.
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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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Poetry to me is prayer.
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