Anne Sexton Quotes

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• The body is a damn hard thing to kill.
• Thief!- how did you crawl into, crawl down alone into the death I wanted so badly and for so long ...
• In a dream you are never eighty.
• Death's in the good-bye.
• Some women marry houses. It's another kind of skin; it has a heart, a mouth, a liver and bowel movements.
• You lay, a small knuckle on my white bed; lay, that fist like a snail, small and strong at my breast. Your lips are animals;…
• I am teaching...It's kind of like having a love affair with a rhinoceros.
• My death from the wrists, two name tags, blood worn like a corsage to bloom one on the left and one on the right.
• Yes I try to kill myself in small amounts, an innocuous occupation. Actually I'm hung up on it.
• emerald as heavy as a golf course, ruby as dark as an afterbirth, diamond as white as sun on the sea...
• Well, one gets out of bed and the planets don't always hiss or muck up the day, each day.
• I have been cut in two.
• Oh, darling, let your body in, let it tie you in, in comfort.
• I'm hunting for the truth. It might be a kind of poetic truth, and not just a factual one, because behind everything that happens to…
• The beautiful feeling after writing a poem is on the whole better even than after sex, and that's saying a lot.
• The place I live in is a kind of maze and I keep seeking the exit or the home.
• Abundance is scooped from abundance yet abundance remains.
• ... and my love stays bitterly glowing, spasms of it will not sleep, and I am helpless and thirsty and need shade but there is…
• It is June. I am tired of being brave.
• As a writer one has to take the chance on being a fool.

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