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Need is not quite belief.
Anne Sexton
Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.
Anne Sexton
Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.
Anne Sexton
In a dream you are never eighty.
Anne Sexton
We are all writing God's poem.
Anne Sexton
The joy that isn't shared dies young.
Anne Sexton
As for me, I am a watercolor. I wash off.
Anne Sexton
The beautiful feeling after writing a poem is on the whole better even than after sex, and that's saying a lot.
Anne Sexton
God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.
Anne Sexton
The tongue, the Chinese say, is like a sharp knife: it kills without drawing blood.
Anne Sexton
My eyes, those sluts, those whores, would play no more.
Anne Sexton
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
Even without wars, life is dangerous.
Anne Sexton
God is only mocked by believers.
Anne Sexton
God owns heaven but He craves the earth.
Anne Sexton
Blue eyes wash off sometimes.
Anne Sexton
I grow old on my bitterness.
Anne Sexton
I was spread out dailyand examined for flaws.
Anne Sexton
I am stuffing your mouth with your promises and watching you vomit them out upon my face.
Anne Sexton
Even so, I must admire your skill. You are so gracefully insane.
Anne Sexton
But suicides have a special language. Like carpenters they want to know which tools. They never ask why build.
Anne Sexton
And what of the dead? They lie without shoes in their 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
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