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Into Quotes by Anne Sexton
- Thief!- how did you crawl into, crawl down alone into the death I wanted so badly and for so long ...
- Love? Be it man. Be it woman. It must be a wave you want to glide in on, give your body to it, give your…
- Only my books anoint me, and a few friends, those who reach into my veins.
- There once was a miller with a daughter as lovely as a grape. He told the king that she could spin gold out of common…
- Do you like me?” No answer. Silence bounced, fell off his tongue and sat between us and clogged my throat. It slaughtered my trust. It…
- It was as if a morning-glory had bloomed in her throat, and all that blue and small pollen ate into my heart, violent and religious
- I find now, swallowing one teaspoon of pain, that it drops downward to the past where it mixes with last year’s cupful and downward into…
- The windows, the starving windows that drive the trees like nails into my heart.
- If I could blame it on all the mothers and fathers of the world, they of the lessons, the pellets of power, they of the…
- 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…
- 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…
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- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today. — Alexis Arguello
- Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. — Aristotle
- The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life. — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there. — Richard Bach
- It's actually amazing because you go so far into another side of your brain when you're studying something completely different, and I… — Dido Armstrong
- If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life. — Karen Armstrong
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to… — Karen Armstrong
- It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what… — Lance Armstrong