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Anne Sexton Quotes

It is snowing and death bugs meas stubborn as insomnia.

Anne Sexton

It is snowing and death bugs meas stubborn as insomnia.

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Death's in the good-bye.

Anne Sexton

Death's in the good-bye.

Tags: death, good bye

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Anne Sexton (born Anne Gray Harvey; November 9, 1928 – October 4, 1974) was an American poet known for her highly personal, confessional verse. She won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1967 for her book Live or Die. Her poetry details her long battle with bipolar disorder, suicidal tendencies, and intimate details from her private life, including relationships with her husband and children, whom it was later alleged she physically and sexually assaulted.

Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.

Anne Sexton

Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.

Tags: exuberance, moderation, poetry

He turns the key.Presto!It opens this book of odd taleswhich transform the Brothers Grimm.Transform?As if an enlarged paper clipcould be a piece of sculpture.(And it could.)

Anne Sexton

He turns the key.Presto!It opens this book of odd taleswhich transform the Brothers Grimm.Transform?As if an enlarged paper clipcould be a piece of sculpture.(And it could.)

Tags: fairy tale, transformation

Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.

Anne Sexton

Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.

Tags: living, soul, right

Sometimes the soul takes pictures of things it has wished for, but never seen.

Anne Sexton

Sometimes the soul takes pictures of things it has wished for, but never seen.

Tags: pictures, soul, wish

Pain engraves a deeper memory.

Anne Sexton

Pain engraves a deeper memory.

Tags: memoir, memoir writing, writing, writing life, writing process creative

Love your self's self where it lives.

Anne Sexton

Love your self's self where it lives.

Tags: self, acceptance

But suicides have a special language.Like carpenters they want to know which tools.They never ask why build.Twice I have so simply declared myself,have possessed the enemy, eaten the enemy,have taken...

Anne Sexton

But suicides have a special language.Like carpenters they want to know which tools.They never ask why build.Twice I have so simply declared myself,have possessed the enemy, eaten the enemy,have taken...

Tags: suicide

We were fair game but we have kept out of the cesspool. We are strong. We are the good ones. Do not discover us for we lie together all in green like pond weeds. Hold me, my young dear, hold me.

Anne Sexton

We were fair game but we have kept out of the cesspool. We are strong. We are the good ones. Do not discover us for we lie together all in green like pond weeds. Hold me, my young dear, hold me.

Tags: anne sexton, fairytale, hold me, poetry, rapunzel, strength, strong

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

Anne Sexton

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

Tags: poetry, the addict

Poetry led me by the hand out of madness.

Anne Sexton

Poetry led me by the hand out of madness.

Tags: anne sexton, madness, poetry

And what of the dead? They lie without shoesin the stone boats. They are more like stonethan the sea would be if it stopped. They refuseto be blessed, throat, eye and knucklebone.

Anne Sexton

And what of the dead? They lie without shoesin the stone boats. They are more like stonethan the sea would be if it stopped. They refuseto be blessed, throat, eye and knucklebone.

Tags: heart

CourageIt is in the small things we see it.The child's first step,as awesome as an earthquake.The first time you rode a bike,wallowing up the sidewalk.The first spanking when your heartwent on a journ...

Anne Sexton

CourageIt is in the small things we see it.The child's first step,as awesome as an earthquake.The first time you rode a bike,wallowing up the sidewalk.The first spanking when your heartwent on a journ...

Tags: courage

You, Doctor Martin, walkfrom breakfast to madness. Late August,I speed through the antiseptic tunnelwhere the moving dead still talkof pushing their bones against the thrustof cure. And I am queen of...

Anne Sexton

You, Doctor Martin, walkfrom breakfast to madness. Late August,I speed through the antiseptic tunnelwhere the moving dead still talkof pushing their bones against the thrustof cure. And I am queen of...

Depression is boring, I thinkand I would do better to makesome soup and light up the cave.

Anne Sexton

Depression is boring, I thinkand I would do better to makesome soup and light up the cave.

Tags: depression

The grass as bristly and stout as chives and me wondering when the ground will break and me wondering how anything fragile survives

Anne Sexton

The grass as bristly and stout as chives and me wondering when the ground will break and me wondering how anything fragile survives

Tags: poetry

As it has been said:Love and a coughcannot be concealed.Even a small cough.Even a small love.

Anne Sexton

As it has been said:Love and a coughcannot be concealed.Even a small cough.Even a small love.

Tags: poetry

Death, I need my little addiction to you. I need that tiny voice who, even as I rise from the sea, all woman, all there, says kill me, kill me.

Anne Sexton

Death, I need my little addiction to you. I need that tiny voice who, even as I rise from the sea, all woman, all there, says kill me, kill me.

Tags: death

Live or die, but don't poison everything.

Anne Sexton

Live or die, but don't poison everything.

Tags: death, life, poison, living