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Anne Sexton - Said The Poet To The Analyst

My business is words. Words are like labels, 
or coins, or better, like swarming bees. 
I confess I am only broken by the sources of things; 
as if words were counted like dead bees in the attic, 
unbuckled from their yellow eyes and their dry wings. 
I must always forget who one words is able to pick 
out another, to manner another, until I have got 
somethhing I might have said... 
but did not. 
Your business is watching my words. But I 
admit nothing. I worth with my best, for instances, 
when I can write my praise for a nickel machine, 
that one night in Nevada: telling how the magic jackpot 
came clacking three bells out, over the lucky screen. 
But if you should say this is something it is not, 
then I grow weak, remembering how my hands felt funny 
and ridiculous and crowded with all 
the believing money.

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Poet: Anne Sexton
Poem: Said The Poet To The Analyst
Poem of the Day: Aug 11 2010

Comment 3 of 3, added on May 20th, 2009 at 5:16 AM.

This is a moving poem....don't try to analyse it too much..I think I know how Anne must have been feeling (sort of) when she wrote it...she was and is a great poet !!

Ricky McLeod from New Zealand
Comment 2 of 3, added on November 17th, 2005 at 2:43 PM.

Why do people tell you that your peotry is something it is not.Why do people tell you your poetry is a cry for help. I hate when people pin down meaning.

Molli Swift from United States
Comment 1 of 3, added on July 19th, 2005 at 3:11 AM.

Wonderful poem! It's a fantastic insight of the distance beetwen words and thougs and feelings, about the incompreension that most times exist in the psycotherapeutic work! This poem talks about the realitys that exist and their meanings and, once more, tell us that the art is sometimes the best way to express them.

José Armindo from Portugal

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