Anne Sexton Quotes About Enemies

Quotes about: Enemies

• I am your dwarf. I am the enemy within. I am the boss of your dreams. See. Your hand shakes. It is not palsy or booze. It is your Doppelganger trying to get out. Beware...Beware...

  Anne Sexton

  Dream, Dwarves, Hands

  Anne Sexton (2001). “Transformations”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• But suicides have a special language. Like carpenters they want to know which tools. They never ask why build. Twice I have so simply declared myself, have possessed the enemy, eaten the enemy, have taken on his craft, his magic.

  Anne Sexton

  Suicide, Taken, Magic

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.98, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• The sky breaks.
  It sags and breathes upon my face.
  in the presence of mine enemies, mine enemies
  The world is full of enemies.
  There is no safe place.

  Anne Sexton

  Sky, Enemy, World

  Anne Sexton (1964). “Selected poems”

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