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Anne Sexton Quotes
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I hoard books. They are people who do not leave (Anne Sexton Quotes)
A woman who writes feels too much (Anne Sexton Quotes)
... man is eating the earth up like a candy bar (Anne Sexton Quotes)
... a starving man doesn’t ask what the meal is (Anne Sexton Quotes)
Yes I try to kill myself in small amounts, an innocuous occupation. Actually I’m hung up on it (Anne Sexton Quotes)
We talked death with burned-up intensity, both of us drawn to it like moths to an electric light bulb. Sucking on it! (Anne Sexton Quotes)
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 Quotes)
I love the word warm. It is almost unbearable-- so moist and breathlike. (Anne Sexton Quotes)
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 Quotes)
All I wanted was a little piece of life, to be married, to have children.... I was trying my damnedest to lead a conventional life, for that was how I was brought up, and it was what my husband wanted of me. But one can’t build little white picket fences to keep the nightmares out. (Anne Sexton Quotes)
To love another is somethinglike prayer and it can’t be planned, you just fallinto its arms because your belief undoes your disbelief. (Anne Sexton Quotes)
Big heart, wide as a watermelon, but wise as birth, there is so much abundance in the people I have.... (Anne Sexton Quotes)
Despite my asbestos gloves, the cough is filling me with black, and a red powder seeps through my veins.... (Anne Sexton Quotes)
I have a black look I do not like. It is a mask I try on. I migrate toward it and its frog sits on my lips and defecates. (Anne Sexton Quotes)
My husband sings Baa Baa black sheep and we pretend that all’s certain and good, that the marriage won’t end. (Anne Sexton Quotes)
When the cow gives blood and the Christ is born we must all eat sacrifices. We must all eat beautiful women. (Anne Sexton Quotes)
Take the brown eyes of my father, those gun shots, those mean muds. Bury them. Take the blue eyes of my mother, naked as the sea.... (Anne Sexton Quotes)
I will be steel! I will build a steel bridge over my need! I will build a bomb shelter over my heart! But my future is a secret. It is as shy as a mole. (Anne Sexton Quotes)
Some women marry houses. It’s another kind of skin; it has a heart, a mouth, a liver and bowel movements. (Anne Sexton Quotes)
I who was a house full of bowel movement, I who was a defaced altar, I who wanted to crawl toward God could not move nor eat bread. (Anne Sexton Quotes)
No one to hate except the slim fish of memory that slides in and out of my brain (Anne Sexton Quotes)
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 Quotes)
To die whole, riddled with nothing but desire for it, is like breakfast after love (Anne Sexton Quotes)
I try to take care and be gentle to them. Words and eggs must be handled with care. Once broken they are impossible things to repair. (Anne Sexton Quotes)
He turns the key.Presto!It opens this book of odd taleswhich transform the Brothers Grimm.Transform?As if an enlarged paper clipcould be a piece of sculpture.(And it could.) (Anne Sexton Quotes)
If the doctors cure then the sun sees it. If the doctors kill then the earth hides it. The doctors should fear arrogance more than cardiac arrest. (Anne Sexton Quotes)
Our checks are pale. Our wallets are invalids. Past due, past due, is what our bills are saying and yet we kiss in every corner, scuffing the dust and the cat. Love rises like bread as we go bust. (Anne Sexton Quotes)
Then God spoke to me and said: People say only good things about Christmas. If they want to say something bad, they whisper. (Anne Sexton Quotes)
When someone kisses someone or flushes the toilet it is my other who sits in a ball and cries. My other beats a tin drum in my heart. My other hangs up laundry as I try to sleep. My other cries and cries and cries when I put on a cocktail dress. (Anne Sexton Quotes)
You see, we live in a cold climate and are not permitted to kiss on the street so I made up a song that wasn’t true. I made up a song called Marriage. (Anne Sexton Quotes)