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Anne Sexton Quotes

O yellow eye, let me be sick with your heat, let me be feverish and frowning Picture Quote #1

I am so imperfect, can you love me when really my soul is deformed? Will you love me anyhow? Picture Quote #1

Daylight is nobody’s friend. God comes in like a landlord and flashes on his brassy lamp Picture Quote #1

I would like a simple life / yet all night I am laying / poems away in a long box Picture Quote #1

It’s a little mad, but I believe I am many people. When I am writing a poem, I feel I am the person who should have written it Picture Quote #1

I think it will be a miracle if I don’t someday end up killing myself Picture Quote #1

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Women tell time by the body. They are like clocks. They are always fastened to the earth, listening for its small animal noises Picture Quote #1

Rejoice with the day lily for it is born for a day to live by the mailbox and glorify the roadside Picture Quote #1

Images are probably the most important part of the poem. First of all you want to tell a story, but images are what are going to shore it up and get to the heart of the matter Picture Quote #1

It doesn’t matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was Picture Quote #1

And what of the dead? They lie without shoes in the stone boats. They are more like stone than the sea would be if it stopped. They refuse to be blessed, throat, eye and knucklebone Picture Quote #1

The man inside of woman ties a knot so that they will never again be separate… Picture Quote #1

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The soul was not cured, it was as full as a clothes closet of dresses that did not fit Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Writers are such phonies: they sometimes have wise insights but they don’t live by them at all. That’s what writers are like... you think they know something, but usually they are just messes Picture Quote #1

The boys and girls are one tonight. They unbutton blouses. They unzip flies. They take off shoes. They turn off the light. The glimmering creatures are full of lies. They are eating each other. They are overfed. At night, alone, I marry the bed Picture Quote #1

Give me your skin as sheer as a cobweb, let me open it up and listen in and scoop out the dark Picture Quote #1

Some women marry houses. It’s another kind of skin; it has a heart, a mouth, a liver and bowel movements Picture Quote #1

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You lay, a small knuckle on my white bed; lay, that fist like a snail, small and strong at my breast. Your lips are animals; you are fed with love. At first, hunger is not wrong Picture Quote #1

I am teaching... It’s kind of like having a love affair with a rhinoceros Picture Quote #1

My death from the wrists, two name tags, blood worn like a corsage to bloom one on the left and one on the right Picture Quote #1

Well, one gets out of bed and the planets don't always hiss or muck up the day, each day Picture Quote #1

I’m hunting for the truth. It might be a kind of poetic truth, and not just a factual one, because behind everything that happens to you, there is another truth, a secret life Picture Quote #1

The place I live in is a kind of maze and I keep seeking the exit or the home Picture Quote #1

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I am younger each year at the first snow. When I see it, suddenly, in the air, all little and white and moving; then I am in love again and very young and I believe everything Picture Quote #1

For I could not read or speak and on the long nights I could not turn the moon off or count the lights of cars across the ceiling Picture Quote #1

Those moments before a poem comes, when the heightened awareness comes over you, and you realize a poem is buried there somewhere, you prepare yourself. I run around, you know, kind of skipping around the house, marvelous elation. It’s as though I could fly Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Love? Be it man. Be it woman. It must be a wave you want to glide in on, give your body to it, give your laugh to it, give, when the gravelly sand takes you, your tears to the land. To love another is something like prayer and can’t be planned, you just fall into its arms because your belief undoes your disbelief Picture Quote #1

I lay there silently, hoarding my small dignity. I did not ask about the gate or the closet. I did not question the bedtime ritual where, on the cold bathroom tiles, I was spread out daily and examined for flaws. I did not know that my bones, those solids, those pieces of sculpture would not splinter Picture Quote #1

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O yellow eye, let me be sick with your heat, let me be feverish and frowning (Anne Sexton Quotes) I am so imperfect, can you love me when really my soul is deformed? Will you love me anyhow? (Anne Sexton Quotes) Daylight is nobody’s friend. God comes in like a landlord and flashes on his brassy lamp (Anne Sexton Quotes) I would like a simple life / yet all night I am laying / poems away in a long box (Anne Sexton Quotes) It’s a little mad, but I believe I am many people. When I am writing a poem, I feel I am the person who should have written it (Anne Sexton Quotes) I think it will be a miracle if I don’t someday end up killing myself (Anne Sexton Quotes) Women tell time by the body. They are like clocks. They are always fastened to the earth, listening for its small animal noises (Anne Sexton Quotes) Rejoice with the day lily for it is born for a day to live by the mailbox and glorify the roadside (Anne Sexton Quotes) Images are probably the most important part of the poem. First of all you want to tell a story, but images are what are going to shore it up and get to the heart of the matter (Anne Sexton Quotes) It doesn’t matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was (Anne Sexton Quotes) And what of the dead? They lie without shoes in the 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 Quotes) The man inside of woman ties a knot so that they will never again be separate… (Anne Sexton Quotes) The soul was not cured, it was as full as a clothes closet of dresses that did not fit (Anne Sexton Quotes) 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 Quotes) Writers are such phonies: they sometimes have wise insights but they don’t live by them at all. That’s what writers are like... you think they know something, but usually they are just messes (Anne Sexton Quotes) The boys and girls are one tonight. They unbutton blouses. They unzip flies. They take off shoes. They turn off the light. The glimmering creatures are full of lies. They are eating each other. They are overfed. At night, alone, I marry the bed (Anne Sexton Quotes) Give me your skin as sheer as a cobweb, let me open it up and listen in and scoop out the dark (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) You lay, a small knuckle on my white bed; lay, that fist like a snail, small and strong at my breast. Your lips are animals; you are fed with love. At first, hunger is not wrong (Anne Sexton Quotes) I am teaching... It’s kind of like having a love affair with a rhinoceros (Anne Sexton Quotes) 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 Quotes) Well, one gets out of bed and the planets don't always hiss or muck up the day, each day (Anne Sexton Quotes) I’m hunting for the truth. It might be a kind of poetic truth, and not just a factual one, because behind everything that happens to you, there is another truth, a secret life (Anne Sexton Quotes) The place I live in is a kind of maze and I keep seeking the exit or the home (Anne Sexton Quotes) I am younger each year at the first snow. When I see it, suddenly, in the air, all little and white and moving; then I am in love again and very young and I believe everything (Anne Sexton Quotes) For I could not read or speak and on the long nights I could not turn the moon off or count the lights of cars across the ceiling (Anne Sexton Quotes) Those moments before a poem comes, when the heightened awareness comes over you, and you realize a poem is buried there somewhere, you prepare yourself. I run around, you know, kind of skipping around the house, marvelous elation. It’s as though I could fly (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) Love? Be it man. Be it woman. It must be a wave you want to glide in on, give your body to it, give your laugh to it, give, when the gravelly sand takes you, your tears to the land. To love another is something like prayer and can’t be planned, you just fall into its arms because your belief undoes your disbelief (Anne Sexton Quotes) I lay there silently, hoarding my small dignity. I did not ask about the gate or the closet. I did not question the bedtime ritual where, on the cold bathroom tiles, I was spread out daily and examined for flaws. I did not know that my bones, those solids, those pieces of sculpture would not splinter (Anne Sexton Quotes)

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