Anne Sexton - Death Quotes

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My death from the wrists, two name tags, blood worn like a corsage to bloom one on the left and one on the right.

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The sea is mother-death and she is a mighty female, the one who wins, the one who sucks us all up.

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

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You, Doctor Martin, walk from breakfast to madness. Late August, I speed through the antiseptic tunnel where the moving dead still talk of pushing their bones against the thrust of cure. And I am queen of this summer hotel or the laughing bee on a stalk of death.

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Fact: death too is in the egg.
Fact: the body is dumb, the body is meat.
And tomorrow the O. R. Only the summer was sweet.

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Death sits with his key in my lock.
Not one day is taken for granted.

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Yes, I know.
Death sits with his key in my lock.
Not one day is taken for granted.
Even nursery rhymes have put me in hock.

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Man
is a bird full of mud,
I say aloud.
And death looks on with a casual eye
and scratches his anus.

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Somebody who should have been born
is gone.

Yes, woman, such logic will lead
to loss without death. Or say what you meant,
you coward... this baby that I bleed.

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The heart,
this child of myself that resides in the flesh,
this ultimate signature of the me, the start
of my blindness and sleep, builds a death crèche.

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The stars are pears
that no one can reach,
even for a wedding.
Perhaps for a death.

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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.

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My life
has appeared unclothed in court,
detail by detail,
death-bone witness by death-bone witness,
and I was shamed at the verdict....

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