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Anne Sexton
American
Poet
Born:
Nov 9
,
1928
Died:
Oct 4
,
1974
Even
God
Life
Mother
Nothing
You
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Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.
Anne Sexton
Soul
Down
Put
Close
Listen
Your
Hard
Ear
Live or die, but don't poison everything.
Anne Sexton
Poison
Live
Everything
Die
Need is not quite belief.
Anne Sexton
Quite
Belief
Need
In a dream you are never eighty.
Anne Sexton
You
Dream
Never
Eighty
God owns heaven but He craves the earth.
Anne Sexton
God
Earth
He
Heaven
Owns
Craves
God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.
Anne Sexton
God
Beer
Brown
Voice
Full
Soft
I am not immortal. Faustus and I are the also-ran.
Anne Sexton
Immortal
Am
Death's in the good-bye.
Anne Sexton
Death
Good-Bye
The beautiful feeling after writing a poem is on the whole better even than after sex, and that's saying a lot.
Anne Sexton
Beautiful
Saying
Writing
Better
Sex
Feeling
Poem
Lot
Than
After
Whole
Even
Most poets are mad. It doesn't qualify us for anything.
Anne Sexton
Mad
Poets
Most
Qualify
Anything
Us
Madness is a waste of time. It creates nothing.
Anne Sexton
Time
Madness
Nothing
Creates
Waste
Waste Of Time
Even though I'm often crazy - and I am, and I know it - still I fight it because I know how sterile, how futile, how bleak... nothing grows from it, and you, meanwhile, only grow into it like a snail.
Anne Sexton
Crazy
You
Fight
Nothing
Though
Futile
Only
Bleak
Sterile
Like
Know
Because
How
Am
Still
Snail
Often
Meanwhile
Even
Grow
Grows
These poets (fans of whatever) should be contacting other young poets on their way - not those who have made it, who sit on a star and then have plenty of problems: usually no money, usually the fear their own writing is going down the sink hole.
Anne Sexton
Writing
Money
Fear
Problems
Fans
Made
Sit
Whatever
Own
Young
Down
Other
Way
Those
Plenty
Poets
Sink
Going
Hole
Then
Should
Who
Star
Before I was married, I had never washed one dish or seen how you fried an egg or baking a potato.
Anne Sexton
You
Seen
Before
Married
Potato
Never
Had
Baking
How
Fried
Egg
Dish
Washed
I want to be a child and not a mother, and I feel guilty about this.
Anne Sexton
Mother
Guilty
About
Feel
Child
Want
I wrote some serious stuff in high school; however, I hadn't been exposed to any of the major poets, not even the minor ones... I read nothing but Sara Teasdale.
Anne Sexton
School
Nothing
High
Minor
Some
High School
Poets
Stuff
Major
Wrote
Read
However
Been
Any
Exposed
Even
Serious
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