Anne Sexton Quotes - Page 8

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• women are born twice.

  Anne Sexton

  Born

  Anne Sexton, Linda Gray Sexton, Lois Ames (2004). “Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters”, p.246, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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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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• All in all, I'd say,
  the world is strangling.

  Anne Sexton

  World, Strangling

  Anne Sexton, “As It Was Written”

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• Need is not quite belief.

  Anne Sexton

  Believe, Reality, Needs

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.57, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Not that it was beautiful, but that I found some order there.

  Anne Sexton

  Beautiful, Order, Found

  Anne Sexton (1964). “Selected poems”

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• Everyone has left me
  except my muse,
  that good nurse.
  She stays in my hand,
  a mild white mouse.

  Anne Sexton

  Inspirational, Hands, White

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.75, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Loving me with my shoes off
  means loving my long brown legs,
  sweet dears, as good as spoons;
  and my feet, those two children
  let out to play naked.

  Anne Sexton

  Sweet, Children, Mean

  Anne Sexton (1999). “Love Poems”, p.35, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There is hope.
  There is hope everywhere.
  Today God give milk
  and I have the pail.

  Anne Sexton

  Hope, Snow, Giving

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

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• Give me your skin as sheer as a cobweb, let me open it up and listen in and scoop out the dark.

  Anne Sexton

  Dark, Giving, Skins

  Anne Sexton (2001). “Transformations”, p.38, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The fish are naked.
  The fish are always awake.
  They are the color of old spoons
  and caramels.

  Anne Sexton

  Color, Naked, Spoons

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• Home is my Bethlehem,
  my succoring shelter,
  my mental hospital,
  my wife, my dam,
  my husband, my sir,
  my womb, my skull.

  Anne Sexton

  Husband, Home, Skulls

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

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• Once I was a couple. I was my own king and queen
  with cheese and bread and rosé on the rocks of Rockport.

  Anne Sexton

  Queens, Kings, Couple

  Anne Sexton (1996). “El Asesino y otros poemas”, p.73, Icaria Editorial

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• Take adultery or theft.
  Merely sins.
  It is evil who dines on the soul,
  stretching out its long bone tongue.
  It is evil who tweezers my heart,
  picking out its atomic worms.

  Anne Sexton

  Heart, Long, Evil

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

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• I'm an empress.
  I wear an apron.
  My typewriter writes.
  It didn't break the way it warned.
  Even crazy, I'm as nice
  as a chocolate bar.

  Anne Sexton

  Crazy, Nice, Writing

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.118, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• But even in a telephone booth
  evil can seep out of the receiver
  and we must cover it with a mattress,
  and then tear it from its roots
  and bury it,
  bury it.

  Anne Sexton

  Roots, Evil, Tears

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

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• My life
  has appeared unclothed in court,
  detail by detail,
  death-bone witness by death-bone witness,
  and I was shamed at the verdict.

  Anne Sexton

  Life, Regret, Details

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

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• It was as if a morning-glory had bloomed in her throat, and all that blue and small pollen ate into my heart, violent and religious

  Anne Sexton

  Religious, Morning, Heart

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.211, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• What's missing is the eyeballs
  in each of us, but it doesn't matter
  because you've got the bucks, the bucks, the bucks.

  Anne Sexton

  Money, Missing, Bucks

  Anne Sexton, “'Daddy' Warbucks”

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• Not that it was beautiful, but that, in the end, there was a certain sense of order there; something worth learning in that narrow diary of my mind

  Anne Sexton

  Beautiful, Order, Mind

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

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• At six
  I lived in a graveyard full of dolls,
  avoiding myself,
  my body, the suspect
  in its grotesque house.

  Anne Sexton

  House, Childhood, Dolls

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• Death, I need my little addiction to you. I need that tiny voice who, even as I rise from the sea, all woman, all there, says kill me, kill me.

  Anne Sexton

  Sea, Voice, Addiction

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

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• I tell it stories now and then
  and feed it images like honey.
  I will not speculate today
  with poems that think they're money.

  Anne Sexton

  Thinking, Poetry, Stories

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

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• My death from the wrists, two name tags, blood worn like a corsage to bloom one on the left and one on the right.

  Anne Sexton

  Blood, Names, Two

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.97, 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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