Anne Sexton quotes - page 5

I am, each day, typing out the God my typewriter believes in. Very quick. Very intense, like a wolf at a live heart. (Anne Sexton)
With a tongue like a razor he will kiss the mother, the child, and we three will color the stars black in memory of his mother who kept him chained to the food tree or turned him on and off like a water faucet and made women through all these hazy years the enemy with a heart of lies. View quote
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In my sights I carve him like a sculptor. I mold out his last look at everyone. I carry his eyes and his brain bone at every position. I know his male sex and I do march over him with my index finger. His mouth and his anus are one. I am at the center of feeling. View quote
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Love! That red disease. View quote
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Love your self's self where it lives. There is no special God to refer to; or if there is, why did I let you grow in another place. You did not know my voice when I came back to call. All the superlatives of tomorrow's white tree and mistletoe will not help you know the holidays you had to miss. View quote
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Fact: death too is in the egg. Fact: the body is dumb, the body is meat. And tomorrow the O.R. Only the summer was sweet. View quote
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A woman who writes feels too much, those trances and portents! As if cycles and children and islands weren't enough; as if mourners and gossips and vegetables were never enough. She thinks she can warm the stars. A writer is essentially a spy. Dear love, I am that girl. View quote
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Catch me. I'm your disease. View quote
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I begin again, Dr.Y, this neverland journal, full of my own sense of filth. Why else keep a journal, if not to examine your own filth? View quote
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She married the prince and all went well except for the fear - the fear of sleep. Briar Rose was an insomniac... She could not nap or lie in sleep without the court chemist mixing her some knock-out drops and never in the prince's presence. View quote
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Oh, darling, let your body in, let it tie you in, in comfort. (Anne Sexton)
I am God, la de dah. View quote
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She is so naked and singular She is the sum of yourself and your dream. Climb her like a monument, step after step. She is solid. As for me, I am a watercolor. I wash off. (For My Lover, Returning To His Wife) View quote
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I know that I have died before-once in November. View quote
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That's what I do: I make coffee and occasionally succumb to suicidal nihilism. But you shouldn't worry - poetry is still first. Cigarettes and alcohol follow. View quote
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Out of used furniture she made a tree. View quote
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How are you? How is your wonderful bathroom? How are the books you read and the things you think? Your dogs and their lives? The weather? Your feelings? View quote
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Quite collected at cocktail parties, meanwhile in my head I'm undergoing open-heart surgery. View quote
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If you have endured a great despair, then, you did it alone. View quote
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The real me lives in words, not in what words mean. View quote
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Some women marry houses. (Anne Sexton)
Somebody sees me, and I see myself through them. Then it's all gone, the whole world falls apart. View quote
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