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Anne Sexton Quotes about Writing

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We are all writing God's poem.

We are all writing God's poem.

God, Writing

As quoted by Erica Jong, in "Into the lion's den" in The Guardian, October 26, 2000.

When I'm writing, I know I'm doing the thing I was born to do.

Inspirational, Writing, Born

All I am is the trick of words writing themselves.

Writing, Tricks

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.

Believe, Writing, Self

A woman who writes feels too much.

Writing, Too Much, Feels

Anne Sexton, Linda Gray Sexton, Lois Ames (2004). “Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters”, p.86, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The beautiful feeling after writing a poem is on the whole better even than after sex, and that's saying a lot.

Beautiful, Sex, Writing

I think I've been writing black poems all along, wearing my white mask. I'm always the victim ... but no longer!

Writing, Thinking, White

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.

Crazy, Nice, Writing

Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.118, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Craft is a trick you make up to let you write the poem.

Writing, Crafts, Tricks

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.

Hope, Motivation, Writing

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

I think of myself as writing for one person, that one perfect reader who understands and loves.

Writing, Thinking, Perfect

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