Anne Sexton quotes - page 3

I'll put it out there: I am scarred by the nostalgic indicipherability of my own desires; I an engulfed by the intimidating unknown, pushed through darkness and dragged down by the irretrievable past sweetness of my memories. (Anne Sexton)
But suicides have a special language. Like carpenters they want to know which tools. They never ask why build. Twice I have so simply declared myself, have possessed the enemy, eaten the enemy, have taken on his craft, his magic. View quote
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Then all this became history. Your hand found mine. Life rushed to my fingers like a blood clot. Oh, my carpenter, the fingers are rebuilt. They dance with yours. View quote
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Depression is boring, I think and I would do better to make some soup and light up the cave. View quote
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Talk to me about sadness. I talk about it too much in my own head but I never mind others talking about it either; I occasionally feel like I tremendously need others to talk about it as well. View quote
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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. View quote
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Suicide is, after all, the opposite of the poem. View quote
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The grass as bristly and stout as chives and me wondering when the ground will break and me wondering how anything fragile survives. View quote
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Sometimes I fly like an eagle but with the wings of a wren. View quote
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Not that it was beautiful, but that I found some order there. View quote
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Rats live on no evil star. (Anne Sexton)
Give me your skin as sheer as a cobweb, let me open it up and listen in and scoop out the dark. View quote
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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. View quote
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O starry night, This is how I want to die. View quote
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I burn the way money burns. View quote
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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! View quote
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Death's in the good-bye. View quote
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being sixteen in the pants I died full of questions. View quote
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Look to your heart that flutters in and out like a moth. God is not indifferent to your need. You have a thousand prayers but God has one. View quote
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And we are magic talking to itself, noisy and alone. I am queen of all my sins forgotten. Am I still lost? Once I was beautiful. Now I am myself. View quote
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Once I was beautiful. Now I am myself, Counting this row and that row of moccasins Waiting on the silent shelf. (Anne Sexton)
Yet love enters my blood like an I. V., dripping in its little white moments. View quote
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The soul was not cured, it was as full as a clothes closet of dresses that did not fit. View quote
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Now I am going back And I have ripped my hand From your hand as I said I would And I have made it this far... View quote
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Only my books anoint me, and a few friends, those who reach into my veins. View quote
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