Anne Sexton Quotes - Page 1

• Anne Sexton / Poet

Earth, earthriding your merry-go-roundtoward extinction,right to the rootsthickening the oceans like gravy,festering in your caves,you are becoming a latrine.

• Anne Sexton / Poet

women are born twice.

• Anne Sexton / Poet

All who love have lied.

• Anne Sexton / Poet

I have been cut in two.

• Anne Sexton / Poet

Poetry to me is prayer.

• Anne Sexton / Poet

Death's in the good-bye.

• Anne Sexton / Poet

Rats live on no evil star

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Need is not quite belief.

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I burn the way money burns.

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My mouth blooms like a cut.

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I grow old on my bitterness.

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sorrow is easier than guilt.

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Blue eyes wash off sometimes.

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Psychiatry is a dirty mirror.

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We are all writing God's poem.

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In a dream you are never eighty.

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God is only mocked by believers.

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It would be pleasant to be drunk.

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Mood can be as important as sense.

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A woman who writes feels too much.

• Anne Sexton / Poet

Poems aren't postcards to send home.

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The joy that isn't shared dies young.

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Even without wars, life is dangerous.

• Anne Sexton / Poet

Love your self's self where it lives.

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I rot on the wall, my own Dorian Gray.

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It is June. I am tired of being brave.

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The body is a damn hard thing to kill.

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My mother was top billing in our house.

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The sanest thing in this world is love.

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Today life opened inside me like an egg.

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I am a collection of dismantled almosts.

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God owns heaven but He craves the earth.

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Live or die, but don't poison everything.

• Anne Sexton / Poet

O starry night, This is how I want to die

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As for me, I am a watercolor. I wash off.

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I am younger each year at the first snow.

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Poor thing. To die and never see Brooklyn.

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Our eyes are full of terrible confessions.

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Today God gives milk / and I have the pail.

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I am torn in two but I will conquer myself.

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Somebody who should have been born is gone.

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life is a trick, life is a kitten in a sack.

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I imitatea memory of beliefthat I do not own.

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All in all, I'd say, the world is strangling.

• Anne Sexton / Poet

I was spread out dailyand examined for flaws.

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Fee-fi-fo-fum - Now I'm borrowed. Now I'm numb.

• Anne Sexton / Poet

A woman / who loves a woman / is forever young.

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Madness is a waste of time. It creates nothing.

• Anne Sexton / Poet

God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.

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Suicide is, after all, the opposite of the poem.