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I am in my own mind. I am locked in the wrong house.

I am in my own mind. I am locked in the wrong house.

Anne Sexton
House, Mind, My Own
Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.93, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Those moments before a poem comes, when the heightened awareness comes over you, and you realize a poem is buried there somewhere, you prepare yourself. I run around, you know, kind of skipping around the house, marvelous elation. It’s as though I could fly.

Anne Sexton
Running, House, Over You

At six I lived in a graveyard full of dolls, avoiding myself, my body, the suspect in its grotesque house.

Anne Sexton
House, Childhood, Dolls

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.

Anne Sexton
God, Moving, House
Anne Sexton (1975). “The Awful Rowing Toward God”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

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