Anne Sexton Quotes

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• I am a collection of dismantled almosts.

  Anne Sexton

  Who I Am, Personality, Imperfection

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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’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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• 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.

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  Love, Fall, Heart

  Anne Sexton, “Admonitions To A Special Person”

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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.

  Anne Sexton

  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.

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  Soul, Sometimes

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

  Anne Sexton

  Said, Concealed, Has Beens

  Anne Sexton, “Small Wire”

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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.

  Anne Sexton

  Crazy, Knowing, Kind

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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.

  Anne Sexton

  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.

  Anne Sexton

  Soul, Skins, Found

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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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• 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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• 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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• The joy that isn't shared dies young.

  Anne Sexton

  Happiness, Joy, Inner Peace

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

  Anne Sexton

  White, Littles, Nightmare

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• I'm hunting for the truth. It might be a kind of poetic truth, and not just a factual one, because behind everything that happens to you, there is another truth, a secret life.

  Anne Sexton

  Hunting, Secret, Might

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

  Anne Sexton

  Death, Daughter, Fathers Day

  "A Small Journal" by Anne Sexton, 1974.

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• The sanest thing in this world is love.

  Anne Sexton

  Positive Thinking, Thinking, World

  Anne Sexton, Webster's II Dictionaries, Lois Ames (1979). “Anne Sexton: A Self Portrait in Letters”, Mariner Books

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• I try to take care
  and be gentle to them.
  Words and eggs must be handled with care.
  Once broken they are impossible things to repair.

  Anne Sexton

  Impossible Things, Eggs, Broken

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

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• My ideas are a curse.
  They spring from a radical discontent
  with the awful order of things.
  I play clown. I play carpenter. I play nurse.
  I play witch.

  Anne Sexton

  Inspirational, Spring, Order

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.263, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• All I am is the trick of words writing themselves.

  Anne Sexton

  Writing, Tricks

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• Rocks crumble, make new forms,
  oceans move the continents,
  mountains rise up and down like ghosts
  yet all is natural, all is change.

  Anne Sexton

  Change, Nature, Ocean

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

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• Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.

  Anne Sexton

  Saint, Moderation, Poet

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

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• 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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