"If I could blame it on all the……" — Anne Sexton
"If I could blame it on all the mothers and fathers of the world, they of the lessons, the pellets of power, they of the love surrounding you like batter ... Blame it on God perhaps? He of the first opening that pushed us all into our first mistakes? No, I'll blame it on Man For Man is God and man is eating the earth up like a candy bar and not one of them can be left alone with the ocean for it is known he will gulp it all down. The stars (possibly) are safe. At least for the moment. The stars are pears that no one can reach, even for a wedding. Perhaps for a death."
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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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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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