Anne Sexton Quotes - Page 14

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• She suffers according to the digits of my hate. I hear the filaments of alabaster. I would lie down with them and lift my madness off like a wig. I would lie outside in a room of wool and let the snow cover me. Paris white or flake white or argentine, all in the washbasin of my mouth, calling “Oh.” I am empty. I am witless. Death is here. There is no other settlement.

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  Hate, Lying, Paris

  Anne Sexton, “Oh”

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• Letters are false really - they are expressions of the way you wish you were instead of the way you are.

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  Expression, Wish, Letters

  Anne Sexton, Linda Gray Sexton, Lois Ames (2004). “Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters”, p.122, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I brush my hair,
  waiting in the pain machine for my bones to get hard,
  for the soft, soft bones that were laid apart
  and were screwed together. They will knit.
  And the other corpse, the fractured heart,
  I feed it piecemeal, little chalice. I'm good to it.

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  Pain, Heart, Hair

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

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• sorrow is easier than guilt.

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  Sorrow, Guilt, Easier

  Anne Sexton, Linda Gray Sexton, Lois Ames (2004). “Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters”, p.44, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Death's in the good-bye.

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  Death, Goodbye, Farewell

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• Fear / a motor, / pumps me around and around / until I fade slowly.

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  Fear, Pumps, Fades

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• I'll
  Vacuum up my stale hair, I'll
  pay all my neighbors' bad debts, I'll
  write a poem called Yellow and put
  my lips down to drink it up.

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  Hope, Motivation, Writing

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

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