"Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just…" — Anne Sexton
"Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance."
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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 Exuberance Quotes
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Exuberance is beauty.
— William Blake
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Even when I was in the orphanage, when I was roaming the street trying to find enough to eat, even…
— Charlie Chaplin
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A sophisticated rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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I call for a collective adventure in generalized joy and freely interdependent exuberance.
— Bob Black
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As a people, we have become obsessed with Health. There is something fundamentally, radically unhealthy about all this. We do…
— Lewis Thomas
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You can have anything you want if you want it desperately enough. You must want it with an inner exuberance…
— Sheilah Graham Westbrook
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How do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values?
— Alan Greenspan
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Old dogs can be a regal sight. Their exuberance settles over the years into a seasoned nobility, their routines become…
— Gail Caldwell
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That coarseness and strength combined with acuteness and inquisitiveness; that practical, inventive turn of mind, quick to find expedients; that…
— Frederick Jackson Turner
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I'm all about exuberance. We only have one short life to live, and we shouldn't waste it being tasteful.
— Isaac Mizrahi
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Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation Then, in your…
— Robert Frost
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As long as we think abstractly, as long as we find in patriotism and the exuberance of War our fulfillment,…
— Chris Hedges
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