Anne Sexton Quotes About Writing
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When I'm writing, I know I'm doing the thing I was born to do.
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All I am is the trick of words writing themselves.
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We are all writing God's poem.
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I'll Vacuum up my stale hair, I'll pay all my neighbors' bad debts, I'll write a poem called Yellow and put my lips down to drink it up.
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I think of myself as writing for one person, that one perfect reader who understands and loves.
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I think I've been writing black poems all along, wearing my white mask. I'm always the victim ... but no longer!
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The beautiful feeling after writing a poem is on the whole better even than after sex, and that's saying a lot.
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Craft is a trick you make up to let you write the poem.
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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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I'm an empress. I wear an apron. My typewriter writes. It didn't break the way it warned. Even crazy, I'm as nice as a chocolate bar.
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A woman who writes feels too much.
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