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title: "4 Carpenter Quotes By Anne Sexton"
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> [But suicides have a special language. Like carpenters they want to know which tools. They never ask why build. Twice I have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-sexton/but-suicides-have-a-special-language-like-carpenters-they-want-to/)

[Anne Sexton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-sexton/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-sexton/then-all-this-became-history-your-hand-found-mine-life-rushed-to-my/)

[Anne Sexton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-sexton/)

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> [Suicides have a special language. Like carpenters they want to know which tools. They never ask why build.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-sexton/suicides-have-a-special-language-like-carpenters-they-want-to-know/)

[Anne Sexton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-sexton/)

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> [My ideas are a curse. They spring from a radical discontent with the awful order of things. I play clown. I play…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-sexton/my-ideas-are-a-curse-they-spring-from-a-radical-discontent-with-the/)

[Anne Sexton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-sexton/)

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## More by Anne Sexton

> [Blind with love, my daughter has cried nightly for horses, those long-necked marchers and churners that she has mastered, any and all, reigning them…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-sexton/blind-with-love-my-daughter-has-cried-nightly-for-horses-those-long/)

[Anne Sexton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-sexton/)

> [I am crazy as hell, but I know it. And knowing it is a kind of sanity that makes the sickness worse.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-sexton/i-am-crazy-as-hell-but-i-know-it-and-knowing-it-is-a-kind-of-sanity/)

[Anne Sexton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-sexton/)

> [And what of the dead? They lie without shoes in the stone boats. They are more like stone than the sea would be if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-sexton/and-what-of-the-dead-they-lie-without-shoes-in-the-stone-boats-they/)

[Anne Sexton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-sexton/)

> [The Witch's Life" When I was a child there was an old woman in our neighborhood whom we called The Witch. All day she…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-sexton/the-witch-s-life-when-i-was-a-child-there-was-an-old-woman-in-our/)

[Anne Sexton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-sexton/)

> [I have forgiven all the old actors for dying. A new one comes on with the same lines, like large white growths, in his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-sexton/i-have-forgiven-all-the-old-actors-for-dying-a-new-one-comes-on-with/)

[Anne Sexton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-sexton/)

> [“From the Garden” Come, my beloved, consider the lilies. We are of little faith. We talk too much. Put your mouthful of words away…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-sexton/from-the-garden-come-my-beloved-consider-the-lilies-we-are-of-little/)

[Anne Sexton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-sexton/)

> [Oh thumb, I want a drink it is dark, where are the big people, when will I get there...?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-sexton/oh-thumb-i-want-a-drink-it-is-dark-where-are-the-big-people-when-will/)

[Anne Sexton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-sexton/)

> [I want to kiss God on His nose and watch Him sneeze and so do you. Not out of disrespect. Out of pique. Out…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-sexton/i-want-to-kiss-god-on-his-nose-and-watch-him-sneeze-and-so-do-you-not/)

[Anne Sexton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-sexton/)

> [I, in my brand new body, which was not a woman's yet, told the stars my questions and thought God could really see the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-sexton/i-in-my-brand-new-body-which-was-not-a-woman-s-yet-told-the-stars-my/)

[Anne Sexton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-sexton/)

> [Father, you died once, salted down at fifty-nine, packed down like a big snow angel, wasn't that enough?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-sexton/father-you-died-once-salted-down-at-fifty-nine-packed-down-like-a-big/)

[Anne Sexton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-sexton/)

> [When I'm writing, I know I'm doing the thing I was born to do.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-sexton/when-i-m-writing-i-know-i-m-doing-the-thing-i-was-born-to-do/)

[Anne Sexton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-sexton/)

> [Cinderella and the prince lived, they say, happily ever after, like two dolls in a museum case never bothered by diapers or dust, never…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-sexton/cinderella-and-the-prince-lived-they-say-happily-ever-after-like-two/)

[Anne Sexton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-sexton/)

> [“Quite collected at cocktail parties, meanwhile in my head I'm undergoing open-heart surgery.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-sexton/quite-collected-at-cocktail-parties-meanwhile-in-my-head-i-m/)

[Anne Sexton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-sexton/)

> [I cannot walk an inch / without trying to walk to God.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-sexton/i-cannot-walk-an-inch-without-trying-to-walk-to-god/)

[Anne Sexton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-sexton/)

> [Now that I have written many words, and let out so many loves, for so many, and been altogether what I always was a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-sexton/now-that-i-have-written-many-words-and-let-out-so-many-loves-for-so/)

[Anne Sexton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-sexton/)

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