Anne Sexton Quotes

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

  Anne Sexton

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

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• I am a collection of dismantled almosts.

  Anne Sexton

  Who I Am, Personality, Imperfection

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• I am alone here in my own mind. There is no map and there is no road. It is one of a kind just as yours is.

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  Mind, Maps, Kind

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.262, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

  Anne Sexton

  Soul, Sometimes

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• Watch out for intellect, because it knows so much it knows nothing and leaves you hanging upside down, mouthing knowledge as your heart falls out of your mouth.

  Anne Sexton

  Love, Fall, Heart

  Anne Sexton, “Admonitions To A Special Person”

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• I’m lost. And it’s my own fault. It’s about time I figured out that I can’t ask people to keep me found.

  Anne Sexton

  Life, People, Faults

  Anne Sexton, Linda Gray Sexton, Lois Ames (2004). “Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters”, p.75, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• As it has been said: Love and a cough cannot be concealed. Even a small cough. Even a small love.

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  Said, Concealed, Has Beens

  Anne Sexton, “Small Wire”

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• Be careful of words, / ... they can be both daisies and bruises.

  Anne Sexton

  Bruises, Language, Daisies

  Anne Sexton, “Words”

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• I am crazy as hell, but I know it. And knowing it is a kind of sanity that makes the sickness worse.

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  Crazy, Knowing, Kind

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• Mood can be as important as sense.

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  Feelings, Important, Mood

  Anne Sexton, Linda Gray Sexton, Lois Ames (2004). “Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters”, p.32, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Meanwhile in my head, I’m undergoing open-heart surgery.

  Anne Sexton

  Heart, Open Heart, Surgery

  Anne Sexton (2001). “Transformations”, p.75, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Those moments before a poem comes, when the heightened awareness comes over you, and you realize a poem is buried there somewhere, you prepare yourself. I run around, you know, kind of skipping around the house, marvelous elation. It’s as though I could fly.

  Anne Sexton

  Running, House, Over You

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• Love? Be it man. Be it woman. It must be a wave you want to glide in on, give your body to it, give your laugh to it, give, when the gravelly sand takes you, your tears to the land. To love another is something like prayer and can't be planned, you just fall into its arms because your belief undoes your disbelief.

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  Prayer, Fall, Love Is

  Anne Sexton, “Admonitions To A Special Person”

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

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  Soul, Skins, Found

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• The joy that isn't shared dies young.

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  Happiness, Joy, Inner Peace

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• All I wanted was a little piece of life, to be married, to have children.... I was trying my damnedest to lead a conventional life, for that was how I was brought up, and it was what my husband wanted of me. But one can't build little white picket fences to keep the nightmares out.

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  Children, Husband, White

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• I am not at home in myself. I am my own stranger.

  Anne Sexton

  Home, Self, Stranger

  Anne Sexton, Linda Gray Sexton, Lois Ames (2004). “Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters”, p.239, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I am younger each year at the first snow. When I see it, suddenly, in the air, all little and white and moving;
  then I am in love again and very young and I believe everything.

  Anne Sexton

  Believe, Moving, Air

  Anne Sexton, Linda Gray Sexton, Lois Ames (2004). “Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters”, p.45, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• One can't build little white picket fences to keep nightmares out.

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  White, Littles, Nightmare

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• Our eyes are full of terrible confessions.

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  Eye, Confession, Terrible

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

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• We are all writing God's poem.

  Anne Sexton

  God, Writing

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

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• My faith
  is a great weight
  hung on a small wire,
  as doth the spider
  hang her baby on a thin web.

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  Faith, Baby, Wire

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• We are America.
  We are the coffin fillers.
  We are the grocers of death.
  We pack them in crates like cauliflowers.

  Anne Sexton

  America, United States, Coffins

  Anne Sexton, “The Firebombers”

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• It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.

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  Death, Daughter, Fathers Day

  "A Small Journal" by Anne Sexton, 1974.

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• The snow has quietness in it; no songs, no smells, no shouts or traffic. When I speak my own voice shocks me.

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  Song, Voice, Smell

  Anne Sexton (1964). “Selected poems”

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