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Anne Sexton Quotes

Anne Sexton quotes

American Poet November 9, 1928 – October 4, 1974

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There once was a millerwith a daughter as lovely as a grape. He told the king that she couldspin gold out of common straw. The king summoned the girland locked her in a room full of strawand told her to spin it into goldor she would die like a criminal. Poor grape with no one to pick. Luscious and round and sleek. Poor thing. To die and never see Brooklyn.(Rumpelstiltskin) Anne Sexton
Love? Be it man. Be it woman. It must be a wave you want to glide in on, give your body to it, give your laugh to it, give, when the gravelly sand takes you, your tears to the land. To love another is somethinglike prayer and can't be planned, you just fallinto its arms because your belief undoes your disbelief. Anne Sexton
Anne Sexton quote: "As it has been said: Love and a coughcannot be concealed. Even..."
As it has been said: Love and a coughcannot be concealed. Even a small cough. Even a small love. Anne Sexton
Anne Sexton quote: "Yet love enters my blood like an I.V., dripping in its little..."
Yet love enters my blood like an I.V., dripping in its little white moments. Anne Sexton
Anne Sexton quote: "Yesterday I did not want to be borrowed but this is the..."
Yesterday I did not want to be borrowed but this is the typewriter that sits before me and love is where yesterday is at. Anne Sexton
and God was there like an island I had not rowed to, still ignorant of Him, my arms, and my legs worked, and I grew, I grew, I wore rubies and bought tomatoesand now, in my middle age, about nineteen in the head I'd say, I am rowing, I am rowingthough the oarlocks stick and are rustyand the sea blinks and rollslike a worried eyebal, but I am rowing, I am rowing, though the wind pushes me backand I know that that island will not be perfect, it will have the flaws of life, the absurdities of... Anne Sexton
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, for that was how I was brought up, and it was what my husband wanted of me. But one can't build little white picket fences to keep the nightmares out. Anne Sexton
Then all this became history. Your hand found mine. Life rushed to my fingers like a blood clot. Oh, my carpenter, the fingers are rebuilt. They dance with yours. Anne Sexton
The Witch's Life"When I was a childthere was an old woman in our neighborhood whom we called The Witch. All day she peered from her second storywindowfrom behind the wrinkled curtainsand sometimes she would open the windowand yell: Get out of my life! She had hair like kelpand a voice like a boulder. I think of her sometimes nowand wonder if I am becoming her. Anne Sexton
Anne Sexton quote: "Poetry is my life, my postmark, my hands, my kitchen, my face."
Poetry is my life, my postmark, my hands, my kitchen, my face. Anne Sexton
Anne Sexton quote: "Even without wars, life is dangerous."
Even without wars, life is dangerous. Anne Sexton
Anne Sexton quote: "Only my books anoint me, and a few friends, those who reach..."
Only my books anoint me, and a few friends, those who reach into my veins. Anne Sexton
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 tore cigarettes out of my mouth. We exchanged blind words, and I did not cry, I did not beg, but blackness filled my ears, blackness lunged in my heart, and something that had been good, a sort of kindly oxygen, turned into a gas oven. Anne Sexton
And we are magic talking to itself, noisy and alone. I am queen of all my sins forgotten. Am I still lost? Once I was beautiful. Now I am myself Anne Sexton
Anne Sexton quote: "The beautiful feeling after writing a poem is on the whole..."
The beautiful feeling after writing a poem is on the whole better even than after sex, and that's saying a lot. Anne Sexton

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