Famous Anne Sexton Quotations

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"Oh, darling, let your body in, let it tie you in, in comfort."
by Anne Sexton
"The joy that isn't shared dies young."
by Anne Sexton
"The house of my body has spoken often as you rebuild me like blocks, and promise to come visit when I'm finally adjusted on safe land, and am livable, joist to joist with storm windows and screens ..."
by Anne Sexton
"The sea is mother-death and she is a mighty female, the one who wins, the one who sucks us all up."
by Anne Sexton
"O yellow eye, let me be sick with your heat, let me be feverish and frowning."
by Anne Sexton
"... the heart monitor, the death cricket bleeping."
by Anne Sexton
"... into that rushing beast of the night, sucked up by that great dragon, to split..."
by Anne Sexton
"... wounding God with his blue face, his tyranny, his absolute kingdom, with my aphrodisiac."
by Anne Sexton
"... with her shoulders as bare as a building, with her thin foot and her thin toes,..."
by Anne Sexton
"All considerations for these human remains! They must have an escort! They are classified!"
by Anne Sexton
"Also, I am tired of all the dead. They refuse to listen,..."
by Anne Sexton
"All those girls who wore the red shoes,..."
by Anne Sexton
"And thus Snow White became the prince's bride. The wicked queen was invited to the wedding feast..."
by Anne Sexton
"and you'll bargain with the calendar and at the last moment..."
by Anne Sexton
"And what of the dead? They lie without shoes in their stone boats. They are more like stone"
by Anne Sexton
"At the next town the local princess was having a contest...."
by Anne Sexton
"At six I lived in a graveyard full of dolls, avoiding myself, my body, the suspect in its grotesque house."
by Anne Sexton
"At her best she is all red muscle, humming in and out, cajole by time. Where I go, she goes."
by Anne Sexton
"But I died yesterday, 'Daddy,' I died,..."
by Anne Sexton
"Big heart, wide as a watermelon, but wise as birth, there is so much abundance in the people I have...."
by Anne Sexton
"Cinderella and the prince lived, they say, happily ever after,..."
by Anne Sexton
"But you you go ahead, go on, go on back down..."
by Anne Sexton
"Does he lie there forever, where his rifle waits, giant..."
by Anne Sexton
"Death's a sad bone; bruised, you'd say, and yet she waits for me, year after year,"
by Anne Sexton
"Death, you lie in my arms like a cherub, as heavy as bread dough. Your milky wings are as still as plastic."
by Anne Sexton
"Death, I need my little addiction to you...."
by Anne Sexton
"Darling, life is not in my hands; life with its terrible changes..."
by Anne Sexton
"Don't look now, God, we're all right. All the suicides are eating Black Bean Soup;..."
by Anne Sexton
"For God was as large as a sunlamp and laughed his heat at us and therefore we did not cringe at the death hole."
by Anne Sexton
"Faces, suddenly suspended above you; faces that you think it's your business to love if only you could remember their names."
by Anne Sexton
"For she has outlived the dates in the back of Fords, she has outlived the penises of her teens to come here, to the married harbor."
by Anne Sexton
"for it is dark, as dark as the leathery dead..."
by Anne Sexton
"Father, you died once, salted down at fifty-nine, packed down like a big snow angel, wasn't that enough?"
by Anne Sexton
"Going down for the last time, the last breath lying, I grapple with eels like ropes—it's ether, it's queer..."
by Anne Sexton
"He had kind eyes and hands and was a friend of sorrow. Thus they were married. After all he had compromised her."
by Anne Sexton
"grown fully, as they say, they gave her a ring,..."
by Anne Sexton
"How did it die? I called it EVIL. I said to it, your poems stink like vomit."
by Anne Sexton
"His white head hung out like a carpet bag and his crotch turned blue as a blood blister,..."
by Anne Sexton
"His soul dropped down from heaven. Thank you, said Lazarus,..."
by Anne Sexton
"her young years bungle past their same marriage bed..."
by Anne Sexton
"He wants to fly into the hand of Michelangelo and come out painted on a ceiling...."
by Anne Sexton
"I am the only actor. It is difficult for one woman to act out a whole play. The play is my life, my solo act."
by Anne Sexton
"I am tearing the feathers out of the pillows, waiting, waiting for Daddy to come home..."
by Anne Sexton
"I am out of practice at living. You are as brave as a motorcycle."
by Anne Sexton
"Hurry, Godfather death, Mister tyranny,..."
by Anne Sexton
"I brush my hair, waiting in the pain machine for my bones to get hard,..."
by Anne Sexton
"I tied down time with a rope but it came back...."
by Anne Sexton
"I hear the death of me, the murderous weeds, the stallion breathing sulphur, the hara-kiri rape,..."
by Anne Sexton
"I have put a padlock on you, Mother, dear dead human,..."
by Anne Sexton
"I was the girl of the chain letter,..."
by Anne Sexton
"I swam but the tide came in like ten thousand orgasms. I swam but the waves were higher than horses' necks."
by Anne Sexton
"I would sell my life to avoid the pain that begins in the crib..."
by Anne Sexton
"I would like to think that no one would die anymore if we all believed in daisies..."
by Anne Sexton
"I'm getting bored with it, I tell the typewriter,..."
by Anne Sexton
"Is it possible he marries a cripple out of admiration?"
by Anne Sexton
"In the mind there is a thin alley called death and I move through it as through water."
by Anne Sexton
"It is a dead heart. It is inside of me. It is a stranger yet once it was agreeable, opening and closing like a clam."
by Anne Sexton
"It is snowing and death bugs me as stubborn as insomnia...."
by Anne Sexton
"It is panting; it is an odor with a face like the skin of a donkey. It laps my sores...."
by Anne Sexton
"kill was tangled into her beginning."
by Anne Sexton
"Kicking the heart with pain's big boots running up and down the intestines like a motorcycle racer."
by Anne Sexton
"Just once I knew what life was for."
by Anne Sexton
"Judas had a mother His mother had a dream. Because of this dream he was altogether managed by fate and thus he raped her."
by Anne Sexton
"Jonah made his living inside the belly. Mine comes from the exact same place."
by Anne Sexton
"It was a bad performance. That's because I'm the only actor..."
by Anne Sexton
"life is a trick, life is a kitten in a sack."
by Anne Sexton
"Man is a bird full of mud, I say aloud. And death looks on with a casual eye and scratches his anus."
by Anne Sexton
"Listen. We must all stop dying in the little ways, in the craters of hate, in the potholes of indifference...."
by Anne Sexton
"Maybe, although my heart is a kitten of butter, I am blowing it up like a zeppelin."
by Anne Sexton
"Max, surely you'll meet me at the Ritz at five. Hurry up somebody's dead we're still alive."
by Anne Sexton
"never again would she lose her ball, that moon, that Krishna hair, that blind poppy, that innocent globe, that madonna womb."
by Anne Sexton
"My Sweeney, Mr. Eliot, is that Australian who came..."
by Anne Sexton
"Ms. Dog wouldn't give them her buttocks. She would moon at them...."
by Anne Sexton
"No matter whose bed you die in the bed will be yours for your voyage onto the surgical andiron of God."
by Anne Sexton
"Never mind you and me. They could not listen...."
by Anne Sexton
"My life has appeared unclothed in court,..."
by Anne Sexton
"My husband sings Baa Baa black sheep and we pretend that all's certain and good, that the marriage won't end."
by Anne Sexton
"My heart is on a budget. It keeps me on the brink."
by Anne Sexton
"Oh Mary, Gentle Mother,..."
by Anne Sexton
"Now they are together like strangers in a two-seater outhouse, eating and squatting together."
by Anne Sexton
"Now that you are laid out, useless as a blind dog, now that you no longer lurk, the song rings in my head."
by Anne Sexton
"Now I am just an elderly lady who is full of spleen, who humps around greater Boston in a God-awful hat,..."
by Anne Sexton
"Of course the New Testament is very small...."
by Anne Sexton
"Poor thing. To die and never see Brooklyn."
by Anne Sexton
"Please God, we're all right here. Please leave us alone. Don't send death in his fat red suit and his ho-ho baritone."
by Anne Sexton
"Rocks crumble, make new forms, oceans move the continents,..."
by Anne Sexton
"So I won't hang around in my hospital shift, repeating The Black Mass and all of it...."
by Anne Sexton
"she bit the towel and called on God and I saw her life stretch out . . ...."
by Anne Sexton
"Say the woman is forty-four. Say she is five seven-and-a-half...."
by Anne Sexton
"Someone is dead. Even the trees know it, those poor old dancers who come on lewdly, all pea-green scarfs and spine pole."
by Anne Sexton
"Some women marry houses. It's another kind of skin; it has a heart, a mouth, a liver and bowel movements."
by Anne Sexton
"she will not say how there must be more to living..."
by Anne Sexton
"Still, it would be perfectly fine with me to die like a nice girl..."
by Anne Sexton
"the cement wall of the clumsy calendar I live in, my life, and its hauled up notebooks."
by Anne Sexton
"the heart, this child of myself that resides in the flesh,..."
by Anne Sexton
"The My Lai soldier lifts me up again and again and lowers me down with the other dead women and babies..."
by Anne Sexton
"the marriage twists, holds firm, a sailor's knot."
by Anne Sexton
"The parasol girls slept, sun-sitting their lovely years."
by Anne Sexton
"The others died, the luck of it blurting through them. I could not, I was a silly broken umbrella..."
by Anne Sexton
"Then he told the news media the strange details of his death..."
by Anne Sexton


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