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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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 hoard books. They are people who do not leave.

  Anne Sexton

  Book, People

  Anne Sexton, Linda Gray Sexton, Lois Ames (2004). “Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters”, p.143, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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• She is so naked and singular. She is the sum of yourself and your dream. Climb her like a monument, step after step. She is solid.

  Anne Sexton

  Dream, Steps, Naked

  Anne Sexton (1999). “Love Poems”, p.22, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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 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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• 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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• As for me, I am a watercolor. I wash off.

  Anne Sexton

  Watercolors

  "For My Lover, Returning to His Wife" l. 47 (1969)

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• And the aura of you remains, remains, remains...

  Anne Sexton

  Auras, Remains

  Anne Sexton, Linda Gray Sexton, Lois Ames (2004). “Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters”, p.49, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The joy that isn't shared dies young.

  Anne Sexton

  Happiness, Joy, Inner Peace

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

  Anne Sexton

  Writing, Tricks

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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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• 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

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• There is rust in my mouth,the stain of an old kiss.

  Anne Sexton

  Kissing, Rust, Mouths

  Anne Sexton (1976). “45 Mercy Street”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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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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• You must be a poet,
  a lady of evil luck
  desiring to be what you are not,
  longing to be
  what you can only visit.

  Anne Sexton

  Evil, Poetry, Luck

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

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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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