Anne Sexton Quotes About Soul

Quotes about: Soul

• Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.

  Anne Sexton

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

• Sometimes the soul takes pictures of things it has wished for, but never seen.

  Anne Sexton

  Soul, Sometimes

• ...became a woman who learned her own skin and dug into her soul and found it full.

  Anne Sexton

  Soul, Skins, Found

• 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

• The soul was not cured, it was as full as a clothes closet of dresses that did not fit.

  Anne Sexton

  Clothes, Soul, Dresses

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

• Take adultery or theft.
  Merely sins.
  It is evil who dines on the soul,
  stretching out its long bone tongue.
  It is evil who tweezers my heart,
  picking out its atomic worms.

  Anne Sexton

  Heart, Long, Evil

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

• I can only sign over everything,
  the house, the dog, the ladders, the jewels,
  the soul, the family tree, the mailbox.
  Then I can sleep.
  Maybe.

  Anne Sexton

  Dog, Sleep, Jewels

  Anne Sexton, “The Other”

• When they turn the sun
  on again I'll plant children
  under it, I'll light up my soul
  with a match and let it sing.

  Anne Sexton

  Hope, Children, Light

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

• I am so imperfect, can you love me when really my soul is deformed? Will you love me anyhow?

  Anne Sexton

  Soul, Imperfect, My Soul

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