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One Quotes by Anne Sexton
- My death from the wrists, two name tags, blood worn like a corsage to bloom one on the left and one on the right.
- Well, one gets out of bed and the planets don't always hiss or muck up the day, each day.
- 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…
- ... 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.
- One can't build little white picket fences to keep nightmares out.
- The sea is mother-death and she is a mighty female, the one who wins, the one who sucks us all up.
- 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,…
- I must always forget how one word is able to pick out another, to manner another, until I have got something I might have said...…
- I am alone here in my own mind. There is no map and there is no road. It is one of a kind just as…
- 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…
- Perhaps I am no one. True, I have a body and I cannot escape from it. I would like to fly out of my head,…
- Look to your heart that flutters in and out like a moth. God is not indifferent to your need. You have a thousand prayers but…
- And tonight our skin, our bones, that have survived our fathers, will meet, delicate in the hold, fastened together in an intricate lock. Then one…
- 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 boys and girls are one tonight. They unbutton blouses. They unzip flies. They take off shoes. They turn off the light. The glimmering creatures…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
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