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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.

I am not lazy. I am on the amphetamine of the soul. I am, each day, typing out the God my typewriter believes in.

Anne Sexton
Believe, Typewriters, Poetry
Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.238, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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.

Anne Sexton
Evil, Poetry, Luck
Anne Sexton (1975). “The Awful Rowing Toward God”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

Poetry to me is prayer.

Anne Sexton
Prayer, Poetry

My business is words. Words are like labels, or coins, or better, like swarming bees.

Anne Sexton
Poetry, Labels, Coins
Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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.

Anne Sexton
Poetry, Effort, Greed
Anne Sexton, “Cigarettes And Whiskey And Wild, Wild Women”

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.

Anne Sexton
Thinking, Poetry, Stories
Anne Sexton (1978). “Words for Dr. Y.: uncollected poems with three stories”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

This is what poems are: with mercy for the greedy, they are the tongue's wrangle, the world's pottage, the rat's star.

Anne Sexton
Stars, Poetry, World
Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.58, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I said, the poets are there I hear them singing and lying around their round table and around me still.

Anne Sexton
Lying, Poetry, Singing

I was only sitting here in my white study with the awful black words pushing me around.

Anne Sexton
White, Poetry, Black

Poets are sitting in my kitchen. Why do these poets lie? Why do children get children and Did you hear what it said?

Anne Sexton
Children, Lying, Poetry
Anne Sexton, “Portrait Of An Old Woman On The College Tavern Wall”

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