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Me Quotes by Anne Sexton
- ... and my love stays bitterly glowing, spasms of it will not sleep, and I am helpless and thirsty and need shade but there is…
- 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…
- 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 am so imperfect, can you love me when really my soul is deformed? Will you love me anyhow?
- As for me, I am a watercolor. I wash off.
- Everyone in me is a bird I am beating all my wings
- All I wanted was a little piece of life, to be married, to have children.... I was trying my damnedest to lead a conventional life,…
- The grass as bristly and stout as chives and me wondering when the ground will break and me wondering how anything fragile survives
- Only my books anoint me, and a few friends, those who reach into my veins.
- Yesterday I did not want to be borrowed but this is the typewriter that sits before me and love is where yesterday is at.
- God went out of me as if the sea dried up like sandpaper, as if the sun became a latrine. God went out of my…
- Death, I need my little addiction to you. I need that tiny voice who, even as I rise from the sea, all woman, all there,…
- She suffers according to the digits of my hate. I hear the filaments of alabaster. I would lie down with them and lift my madness…
- Don’t worry if they say you’re crazy. They said that about me and yet I was saner than all of them. I knew. No matter.…
- 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…
- I’m lost. And it’s my own fault. It’s about time I figured out that I can’t ask people to keep me found.
- The snow has quietness in it; no songs, no smells, no shouts or traffic. When I speak my own voice shocks me.
- You who have inhabited me in the deepest and most broken place, are going, going
- Talk to me about sadness. I talk about it too much in my own head but I never mind others talking about it either; I…
- Give me your skin as sheer as a cobweb, let me open it up and listen in and scoop out the dark.
- 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…
- I've grown tired of love You are the trouble with me I watch you walk right by
- 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…
- 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…
More Me Quotes
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — 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
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today. — Alexis Arguello
- I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up… — J. J. Abrams
- I'm literally open to any medium that will have me. — J. J. Abrams
- From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me. — Ludovico Ariosto
- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth. — Aristotle
- A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more… — Frank Abagnale