"Only my books anoint me, and a few……" — Anne Sexton
"Only my books anoint me, and a few friends, those who reach into my veins."
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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 Anoint Quotes
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Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.
— Ambrose Bierce
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What the Church needs to-day is not more machinery or better, not new organizations or more and novel methods, but…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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He was a lifelong Republican, but over the years, Harry Blackmun built a reputation as a liberal, sometimes defiant Justice,…
— Judy Woodruff
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Don't anoint me when you can anoint yourself.
— Chuck D
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Superstars think like superstars long before the fans or the press anoint them.
— John Eliot
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The Holy Ghost does not come upon methods, but upon men. He does not anoint machinery, but men. He does…
— Samuel Chadwick
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The stone which Jacob consecrated at Bethel the generation of the living continues to anoint, paying the tithes which of…
— Julius Wellhausen
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God is not obligated to anoint what He does not initiate.
— Joyce Meyer
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There are too many leaders anointed because they have a public voice - television, radio, or record, or whatever. That…
— Chuck D
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Me too, I make do, I anoint what cannot be fixed.
— Helene Cixous
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I cannot understand how God can give to any of His children glory and virtue, but it nevertheless is true…
— Smith Wigglesworth
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People are always saying that prices are too high. When they turn out to be right, we anoint them. When…
— Eugene Fama
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