All Anne Sexton Quotes
- I am not immortal. Faustus and I are the also-ran. Faustus
- I cannot promise very much. I give you the images I know. Lie still with me and watch. We laugh and we touch. I promise… Cannot Promise
- I've grown tired of love You are the trouble with me I watch you walk right by Grown
- I know this now. Every man gives his life for what he believes. Every woman gives her life for what she believes. Sometimes people believe… All
- I like you; your eyes are full of language. Eyes
- Our checks are pale. Our wallets are invalids. Past due, past due, is what our bills are saying and yet we kiss in every corner,… Bills
- I drink the five o'clock martinis and poke at this dry page likea rough goat. Fool! I fumble my lost childhood for a mother and… Catch
- I could not see the spring. I could not hear the spring. I could not touch the spring. Once upon a time a young person… Died
- The parasol girls slept, sun-sitting their lovely years. Girls
- A freak but moist flower tangles my lungs, knits into my heart, crawls up my throat and sucks like octopi on my tongue. You planted… Crawls
- Not one man is forgiven! East, West, North, South! I bite off their dingbats. Christ rots in my mouth. I curse the seed of my… Bite
- 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… All
- And within the house ashes are being stuffed into my marriage, fury is lapping the walls, dishes crack on the shelves, a strangler needs my… Ashes
- Your old skin puckering, yourlungs' breath Grown baby short as you looked up last At my face swinging over the human bed, And somewhere you… Baby
- Leaving the page of the book carelessly open, something unsaid, the phone off the hook and the love, whatever it was,an infection. Book
- The town is silent. The night boils with eleven stars. Oh starry starry night! This is how I want to die. Boils
- Sweet weight, in celebration of the woman I am and of the soul of the woman I am and of the central creature and its… Celebration
- I am out of practice at living. You are as brave as a motorcycle. Brave