Anne Sexton Quotes - Page 7

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• All who love have lied.

  Anne Sexton

  Lied

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.52, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The place I live in is a kind of maze and I keep seeking the exit or the home.

  Anne Sexton

  Home, Mazes, Exit

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

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• Let the light be called Day so that men may grow corn or take busses.

  Anne Sexton

  Men, Light, May

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.218, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Today life opened inside me like an egg.

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  Today Life, Eggs, Today

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.117, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• God went out of me as if the sea dried up like sandpaper, as if the sun became a latrine. God went out of my fingers. They became stone. My body became a side of mutton and despair roamed the slaughterhouse.

  Anne Sexton

  Sea, Despair, Body

  Anne Sexton (1996). “El Asesino y otros poemas”, p.101, Icaria Editorial

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• Even without wars, life is dangerous.

  Anne Sexton

  Life, War, Reality

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

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• I think I've been writing black poems all along, wearing my white mask. I'm always the victim ... but no longer!

  Anne Sexton

  Writing, Thinking, White

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• I rot on the wall, my own Dorian Gray.

  Anne Sexton

  Wall, Gray, My Own

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.33, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Emerald as heavy as a golf course, ruby as dark as an afterbirth, diamond as white as sun on the sea.

  Anne Sexton

  Dark, Golf, Sea

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

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• You lay, a small knuckle on my white bed; lay, that fist like a snail, small and strong at my breast. Your lips are animals; you are fed with love. At first, hunger is not wrong.

  Anne Sexton

  Strong, Animal, White

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• Yesterday I did not want to be borrowed but this is the typewriter that sits before me and love is where yesterday is at.

  Anne Sexton

  Love Is, Typewriters, Yesterday

  Anne Sexton (1999). “Love Poems”, p.11, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I sit at my desk
  each night with no place to go,
  opening the wrinkled maps of Milwaukee and Buffalo,
  the whole U.S.,
  its cemeteries, its arbitrary time zones,
  through routes like small veins, capitals like small stones.

  Anne Sexton

  Night, Time Zones, Veins

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.74, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• And what of the dead? They lie without shoes in the stone boats. They are more like stone than the sea would be if it stopped. They refuse to be blessed, throat, eye and knucklebone.

  Anne Sexton

  Lying, Blessed, Eye

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.43, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I can only sign over everything,
  the house, the dog, the ladders, the jewels,
  the soul, the family tree, the mailbox.
  Then I can sleep.
  Maybe.

  Anne Sexton

  Dog, Sleep, Jewels

  Anne Sexton, “The Other”

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• Somebody who should have been born
  is gone.
  
  Yes, woman, such logic will lead
  to loss without death. Or say what you meant,
  you coward . . . this baby that I bleed.

  Anne Sexton

  Baby, Loss, Blood

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.56, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• think of innocent Icarus who is doing quite well:
  larger than a sail, over the fog and the blast
  of the plushy ocean, he goes. Admire his wings!

  Anne Sexton

  Ocean, Thinking, Wings

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.48, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I am your dwarf. I am the enemy within. I am the boss of your dreams. See. Your hand shakes. It is not palsy or booze. It is your Doppelganger trying to get out. Beware...Beware...

  Anne Sexton

  Dream, Dwarves, Hands

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

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• I was only sitting here in my white study
  with the awful black words pushing me around.

  Anne Sexton

  White, Poetry, Black

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• Now that I have written many words,
  and let out so many loves, for so many,
  and been altogether what I always was
  a woman of excess, of zeal and greed,
  I find the effort useless.

  Anne Sexton

  Poetry, Effort, Greed

  Anne Sexton, “Cigarettes And Whiskey And Wild, Wild Women”

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• Yet love enters my blood like an I.V., dripping in its little white moments.

  Anne Sexton

  Blood, White, Littles

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• ... and my love stays bitterly glowing, spasms of it will not sleep, and I am helpless and thirsty and need shade but there is no one to cover me- not even God.

  Anne Sexton

  Broken Heart, Sleep, Glowing

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

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• [I] have fantasies of killing myself and thus being the powerful one not the powerless one.

  Anne Sexton

  Suicide, Powerful, Fantasy

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

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• And if I tried to give you something else, something outside myself, you would not know that the worst of anyone can be, finally, an accident of hope

  Anne Sexton

  Giving, Worst, Knows

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.26, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I like you; your eyes are full of language." [Letter to Anne Clarke, July 3, 1964.]

  Anne Sexton

  I Like You, Eye, July

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• It is a dead heart.
  It is inside of me.
  It is a stranger
  yet once it was agreeable,
  opening and closing like a clam.

  Anne Sexton

  Heart, Stranger, Clams

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

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