Anne Sexton Quotes - Page 14

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• With this pen I take in hand my selves
  and with these dead disciples I will grapple.
  Though rain curses the window
  let the poem be made.

  Anne Sexton

  Rain, Self, Hands

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• 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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• You cutting the lawn, fixing the machines,
  all this leprous day and then more vodka,
  more soda and the pond forgiving our bodies,
  the pond sucking out the throb.

  Anne Sexton

  Cutting, Forgiving, Ponds

  Anne Sexton (1974). “The death notebooks”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• the marriage twists, holds firm, a sailor's knot.

  Anne Sexton

  Marriage, Twists, Sailor

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

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• My husband sings Baa Baa black sheep and we pretend
  that all's certain and good, that the marriage won't end.

  Anne Sexton

  Marriage, Husband, Divorce

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

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• Come, my pretender, my fritter,
  my bubbler, my chicken biddy!
  Oh succulent one,
  it is but one turn in the road
  and I would be a cannibal!

  Anne Sexton

  Would Be, Eating, Chickens

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• The Saints come,
  as human as a mouth,
  with a bag of God in their backs,
  like a hunchback,
  they come,
  they come marching in.

  Anne Sexton

  Saint, Bags, Mouths

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