Anne Sexton quotes - page 2

I rot on the wall, my own Dorian Gray. (Anne Sexton)
There is rust in my mouth, the stain of an old kiss. View quote
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Earth, earth riding your merry-go-round toward extinction, right to the roots thickening the oceans like gravy, festering in your caves, you are becoming a latrine. View quote
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I imitate a memory of belief that I do not own. View quote
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Here in the hospital, I say, that is not my body, not my body. I am not here for the doctors to read like a recipe. View quote
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To love another is something like prayer and it can't be planned, you just fall into its arms because your belief undoes your disbelief. View quote
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All day I've built a lifetime and now the sun sinks to undo it. View quote
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She is so naked and singular. She is the sum of yourself and your dream. Climb her like a monument, step after step. She is solid. View quote
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Don't bite till you know if it's bread or stone. View quote
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The man inside of woman ties a knot so that they will never again be separate. View quote
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Take your foot out of the graveyard, they are busy being dead. (Anne Sexton)
Fee-fi-fo-fum - Now I'm borrowed. Now I'm numb. View quote
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When I'm writing, I know I'm doing the thing I was born to do. View quote
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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... but did not. View quote
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I am a collection of dismantled almosts. View quote
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Sometimes the soul takes pictures of things it has wished for, but never seen. View quote
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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. View quote
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I am crazy as hell, but I know it. And knowing it is a kind of sanity that makes the sickness worse. View quote
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The snow has quietness in it; no songs, no smells, no shouts or traffic. When I speak my own voice shocks me. View quote
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Poetry is my life, my postmark, my hands, my kitchen, my face. View quote
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The future is a fog that is still hanging out over the sea, a boat that floats home or does not. (Anne Sexton)
Being kissed on the back of the knee is a moth at the windowscreen. View quote
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Maybe I am becoming a hermit, opening the door for only a few special animals? Maybe my skull is too crowded and it has no opening through which to feed it soup? View quote
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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. You know. Insane or sane, you know. It's a good thing to know - no matter what they call it. View quote
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Writers are such phonies: they sometimes have wise insights but they don't live by them at all. That's what writers are like...you think they know something, but usually they are just messes. View quote
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Anne Sexton

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Occupation: American Poet
Born: November 9, 1928
Died: October 4, 1974
Quotes count: 122
Wikipedia: Anne Sexton

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