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Love Quotes by Anne Sexton

40 Love quotes by Anne Sexton

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Anne Sexton paints love as a wild, almost reckless force that can make a heart feel like a budget on the brink. She captures the fierce bond between women, calling it forever young, and she warns that intellect can leave us hanging upside down, detached from feeling.

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“You care and its all over the place.”

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All who love have lied.

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Love your self's self where it lives.

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The sanest thing in this world is love.

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All in all, I'd say, the world is strangling.

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Abundance is scooped from abundance yet abundance remains.

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“Let me hold your heart like a flower lest it bloom and collapse.”

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And the aura of you remains, remains, remains…

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I've grown tired of love You are the trouble with me I watch you walk right by

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A woman / who loves a woman / is forever young.

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My heart is on a budget. It keeps me on the brink.

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To die whole, riddled with nothing but desire for it, is like breakfast after love.

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I am teaching... This year it's kind of like having a love affair with a rhinoceros.

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Watch out for intellect, because it knows so much it knows nothing and leaves you hanging upside down, mouthing knowledge as your…

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Loving me with my shoes off means loving my long brown legs, sweet dears, as good as spoons; and my feet, those…

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I cannot promise very much. I give you the images I know. Lie still with me and watch. We laugh and we…

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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…

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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…

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Leaving the page of the book carelessly open, something unsaid, the phone off the hook and the love, whatever it was,an infection.

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

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... and my love stays bitterly glowing, spasms of it will not sleep, and I am helpless and thirsty and need shade…

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Watch out for love (unless it is true, and every part of you says yes including the toes), it will wrap you…

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Our checks are pale. Our wallets are invalids. Past due, past due, is what our bills are saying and yet we kiss…

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we do not explain my husband's insane abuse and we do not say why your wild-haired wife has fled or that my…

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In a letter (no matter how quickly it is written or honestly or freely or lovingly) it is more possible to be…

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Love? Be it man. Be it woman. It must be a wave you want to glide in on, give your body to…

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“Despair Who is he? A railroad track toward hell? Breaking like a stick of furniture? The hope that suddenly overflows the cesspool?…

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“From the Garden” Come, my beloved, consider the lilies. We are of little faith. We talk too much. Put your mouthful of…

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If I could blame it on all the mothers and fathers of the world, they of the lessons, the pellets of power,…

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“Courage It is in the small things we see it. The child's first step, as awesome as an earthquake. The first time…

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I hoard books. They are people who do not leave.

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I am teaching...It's kind of like having a love affair with a rhinoceros.

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I am in my own mind. I am locked in the wrong house.

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“If someone burns out your eye I will take your socket and use it for an ashtray.”

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As a writer one has to take the chance on being a fool.

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Yet love enters my blood like an I.V., dripping in its little white moments.

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When I lie down to love, old dwarf heart shakes her head. Like an imbecile she was born old.

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As it has been said: Love and a cough cannot be concealed. Even a small cough. Even a small love.

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I love you. You are closest to my heart, closer than any other human being. You are my extension. You are my…

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Blind with love, my daughter has cried nightly for horses, those long-necked marchers and churners that she has mastered, any and all,…

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