"I find now, swallowing one teaspoon of pain,……" — Anne Sexton
"I find now, swallowing one teaspoon of pain, that it drops downward to the past where it mixes with last year’s cupful and downward into a decade’s quart and downward into a lifetime’s ocean. I alternate treading water and deadman’s float."
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Anne Sexton
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143 Quotes by Anne Sexton
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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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An alternate explanation is not a refutation.
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