"I am so imperfect, can you love me……" — Anne Sexton
"I am so imperfect, can you love me when really my soul is deformed? Will you love me anyhow?"
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143 Quotes by Anne Sexton
Anne Sexton has 143 quotes on this site.
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The body is a damn hard thing to kill.
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Thief!- how did you crawl into, crawl down alone into the death I wanted so badly and for so long…
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In a dream you are never eighty.
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Death's in the good-bye.
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Some women marry houses. It's another kind of skin; it has a heart, a mouth, a liver and bowel movements.
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You lay, a small knuckle on my white bed; lay, that fist like a snail, small and strong at my…
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I am teaching...It's kind of like having a love affair with a rhinoceros.
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My death from the wrists, two name tags, blood worn like a corsage to bloom one on the left and…
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Yes I try to kill myself in small amounts, an innocuous occupation. Actually I'm hung up on it.
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emerald as heavy as a golf course, ruby as dark as an afterbirth, diamond as white as sun on the…
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Well, one gets out of bed and the planets don't always hiss or muck up the day, each day.
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I have been cut in two.
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More Deformed Quotes
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Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever seduce…
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How wide are the horizons of the spinning earth! The moonlight leads the tides and the sun's light will not…
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It is less injury to Him to deny His being, than to deny the purity of it; the one makes…
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The tenets of [the Christian life] seem paradoxes to carnal men; as first, that a Christian is the only freeman,…
— Richard Sibbes
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[Vestiges begins] from principles which are at variance with all sober inductive truth. The sober facts of geology shuffled, so…
— Adam Sedgwick
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In this would I live; in this would I die; upon this would I dwell in my thoughts and affections,…
— John Owen
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Deformed persons commonly take revenge on nature.
— Francis Bacon
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What a deformed thief this fashion is.
— William Shakespeare
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America needs no words from me to see how your decision in Roe v. Wade has deformed a great nation.…
— Mother Teresa
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He is deformed, crooked, old and sere, Ill-faced, worse bodied, shapeless everywhere; Vicious, ungentle, foolish, blunt, unkind; Stigmatical in making,…
— William Shakespeare
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All great art, and today all great artlessness, must appear extreme to the mass of men, as we know them…
— Alexander Trocchi
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There is no mistaking the dismay on the face of a writer who has just heard that his brain child…
— L. Sprague de Camp
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