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Books Quote by Anne Sexton

“But what can be done gull gull when you turn the sun on again, a dead fruit and all that flies today is crooked and vain and has been cut from a book.”

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Blind with love, my daughter has cried nightly for horses, those long-necked marchers and churners that she has mastered, any and all, reigning them…

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I am crazy as hell, but I know it. And knowing it is a kind of sanity that makes the sickness worse.

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And what of the dead? They lie without shoes in the stone boats. They are more like stone than the sea would be if…

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The Witch's Life" When I was a child there was an old woman in our neighborhood whom we called The Witch. All day she peered from her second story window from behind the wrinkled curtains and sometimes she would open the window and yell: Get out of my life! She had hair like kelp and a voice like a boulder.…

I have forgiven all the old actors for dying. A new one comes on with the same lines, like large white growths, in his…

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“From the Garden” Come, my beloved, consider the lilies. We are of little faith. We talk too much. Put your mouthful of words away and come with me to watch the lilies open in such a field, growing there like yachts, slowly steering their petals without nurses or clocks. Let us consider the view: a house where white clouds decorate…

Oh thumb, I want a drink it is dark, where are the big people, when will I get there...?

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I want to kiss God on His nose and watch Him sneeze and so do you. Not out of disrespect. Out of pique. Out…

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I, in my brand new body, which was not a woman's yet, told the stars my questions and thought God could really see the…

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Father, you died once, salted down at fifty-nine, packed down like a big snow angel, wasn't that enough?

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When I'm writing, I know I'm doing the thing I was born to do.

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Cinderella and the prince lived, they say, happily ever after, like two dolls in a museum case never bothered by diapers or dust, never…

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“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.”

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The Rosary is the book of the blind.

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“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.”

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“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.”

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Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit.

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I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about…

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