"Sometimes I fly like an eagle but with…" — Anne Sexton
"Sometimes I fly like an eagle but with the wings of a wren"
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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 Eagle Quotes
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one of 220 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.
— Neil Armstrong
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The Eagle has landed.
— Neil Armstrong
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Don't quack like a duck, soar like an eagle.
— Ken Blanchard
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Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.
— Elizabeth Bowen
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You can put wings on a pig, but you don't make it an eagle.
— William J. Clinton
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A believer is a bird in a cage, a freethinker is an eagle parting the clouds with tireless wing.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
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The eagle has no liberty; he only has loneliness.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Like mighty eagle soaring light. O'er antelopes on Alpine height. The anchor heaves, the ship swings free, The sails swell…
— Thomas Lovell Beddoes
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You are not called to be a canary in a cage. You are called to be an eagle, and to…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, And many goodly states and kingdoms seen; Round many western islands…
— John Keats
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Up, up the long, delirious, burning blue I've topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace, Where never the lark, nor…
— Dizzy Gillespie
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I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land.
— Mark Twain
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