"The soul was not cured, it was as……" — Anne Sexton
"The soul was not cured, it was as full as a clothes closet of dresses that did not fit."
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Anne Sexton
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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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The world's battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet,…
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I've got a closet full of tuxes, and I appreciate that, because one thing I don't like to do is…
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I'm a mom, so I have to be comfortable. Jeans are a staple - I have way too many in…
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Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
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I have a box of awards in the closet. I think it is weird to put them out. I might…
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Prayer is not learned in a classroom but in the closet.
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We cannot talk to God strongly when we have not lived for God strongly. The closet cannot be made holy…
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If we would have God in the closet, God must have us out of the closet. There is no way…
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Praying gives sense, brings wisdom, and broadens and strengthens the mind. The prayer closet is a perfect schoolteacher and schoolhouse…
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A holy life does not live in the closet, but it cannot live without the closet.
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