Anne Sexton Quotes - Page 11

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• And tonight our skin, our bones, that have survived our fathers, will meet, delicate in the hold, fastened together in an intricate lock. Then one of us will shout, "My need is more desperate!" and I will eat you slowly with kisses even though the killer in you has gotten out.

  Anne Sexton

  Father, Kissing, Skins

  Anne Sexton (1999). “Love Poems”, p.20, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• O yellow eye,
  let me be sick with your heat,
  let me be feverish and frowning.

  Anne Sexton

  Eye, Sunshine, Yellow

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• the heart,
  this child of myself that resides in the flesh,
  this ultimate signature of the me, the start
  of my blindness and sleep, builds a death crèche.

  Anne Sexton

  Children, Heart, Sleep

  Anne Sexton (1999). “Love Poems”, p.25, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Inside many of us
  is a small old man
  who wants to get out.

  Anne Sexton

  Men, Age, Want

  Anne Sexton (2001). “Transformations”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We talked death with burned-up intensity, both of us drawn to it like moths to an electric light bulb. Sucking on it!

  Anne Sexton

  Light, Intensity, Bulbs

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• Dead drunk
  is the term I think of,
  insensible,
  neither cool nor warm,
  without a head or a foot.
  To be drunk is to be intimate with a fool.

  Anne Sexton

  Drinking, Thinking, Feet

  Anne Sexton (1964). “Selected poems”

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• Oh thumb,
  I want a drink
  it is dark,
  where are the big people,
  when will I get there...?

  Anne Sexton

  Dark, People, Childhood

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

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• it
  was my first doll that water went
  into and water came out of much
  earlier it was the diaper I wore
  and the dirt thereof and my
  mother hating me for it

  Anne Sexton

  Mother, Hate, Water

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• I was spread out dailyand examined for flaws.

  Anne Sexton

  Flaws, Spread

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• Man
  is a bird full of mud,
  I say aloud.
  And death looks on with a casual eye
  and scratches his anus.

  Anne Sexton

  Eye, Men, Bird

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

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• I lay there silently, hoarding my small dignity. I did not ask about the gate or the closet. I did not question the bedtime ritual where, on the cold bathroom tiles, I was spread out daily and examined for flaws. I did not know that my bones, those solids, those pieces of sculpture would not splinter.

  Anne Sexton

  Hoarding, Sculpture, Splinters

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• I would like to think that no one would die anymore
  if we all believed in daisies
  but the worms know better, don't they?
  They slide into the ear of a corpse
  and listen to his great sigh.

  Anne Sexton

  Thinking, Ears, Slides

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

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• Rejoice with the day lily for it is born for a day to live by the mailbox and glorify the roadside

  Anne Sexton

  Lilies, Born, Mailboxes

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

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• And within the house
  ashes are being stuffed into my marriage,
  fury is lapping the walls,
  dishes crack on the shelves,
  a strangler needs my throat,
  the daughter has ceased to eat anything.

  Anne Sexton

  Daughter, Wall, Divorce

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

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• Pulling off the fat diamond engagement ring,
  pulling off the elopement wedding ring,
  and holding them, clicking them
  in thumb and forefinger,
  the indent of twenty-five years,
  like a tiny rip leaving its mark.

  Anne Sexton

  Rip, Divorce, Years

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

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• stop the darkness and its amputations
  and find the real McCoy
  in the private holiness
  of my hands.

  Anne Sexton

  Real, Hands, Darkness

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

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• There is joy
  in all:
  in the hair I brush each morning,
  in the Cannon towel, newly washed,
  that I rub my body with each morning.

  Anne Sexton

  Morning, Hair, Joy

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• I see myself as one would see another.
  I have been cut in two.

  Anne Sexton

  Cutting, Two, Mental Illness

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.92, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The Witch's Life" When I was a child there was an old woman in our neighborhood whom we called The Witch. All day she peered from her second story window from behind the wrinkled curtains and sometimes she would open the window and yell: Get out of my life! She had hair like kelp and a voice like a boulder. I think of her sometimes now and wonder if I am becoming her.

  Anne Sexton

  Children, Thinking, Hair

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

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• My heart is on a budget.
  It keeps me on the brink.

  Anne Sexton

  Heart, My Heart, Budgets

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

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• Well, one gets out of bed and the planets don't always hiss or muck up the day, each day.

  Anne Sexton

  Astrology, Bed, Each Day

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

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• Oh, darling, let your body in, let it tie you in, in comfort.

  Anne Sexton

  Get Well, Ties, Comfort

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.101, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I have been cut in two.

  Anne Sexton

  Cutting, Two, Mental Health

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.92, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Yes I try to kill myself in small amounts, an innocuous occupation. Actually I'm hung up on it.

  Anne Sexton

  Suicide, Self Harm, Trying

  Anne Sexton, “The Addict”

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• Death's in the good-bye.

  Anne Sexton

  Death, Goodbye, Farewell

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