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Love Quotes by Anne Sexton
- In a dream you are never eighty.
- 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.
- 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…
- As a writer one has to take the chance on being a fool.
- I love you. You are closest to my heart, closer than any other human being. You are my extension. You are my prayer. You are…
- I hoard books. They are people who do not leave.
- And the aura of you remains, remains, remains…
- I am so imperfect, can you love me when really my soul is deformed? Will you love me anyhow?
- God owns heaven but He craves the earth.
- Being kissed on the back of the knee is a moth at the windowscreen....
- As it has been said: Love and a cough cannot be concealed. Even a small cough. Even a small love.
- Watch out for intellect, because it knows so much it knows nothing and leaves you hanging upside down, mouthing knowledge as your heart falls out…
- As for me, I am a watercolor. I wash off.
- Everyone in me is a bird I am beating all my wings
- I burn the way money burns.
- Don't bite till you know if it's bread or stone.
- 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…
- All day I've built a lifetime and now the sun sinks to undo it.
- Yet love enters my blood like an I.V., dripping in its little white moments.
- being sixteen in the pants I died full of questions
- Suicide is, after all, the opposite of the poem.
- Yesterday I did not want to be borrowed but this is the typewriter that sits before me and love is where yesterday is at.
- Fee-fi-fo-fum - Now I'm borrowed. Now I'm numb.
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- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Let us love winter, for it is the spring of genius. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento
- When I was a teenager, I read a lot of Poe. — Dario Argento
- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
- I'm literally open to any medium that will have me. — J. J. Abrams
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide