Anne Sexton - Kind Quotes

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The place I live in is a kind of maze and I keep seeking the exit or the home.

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A woman like that is not a woman, quite.
I have been her kind.

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I am alone here in my own mind. There is no map and there is no road. It is one of a kind just as yours is.

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I have ridden in your cart, driver,
waved my nude arms at villages going by,
learning the last bright routes, survivor
where your flames still bite my thigh
and my ribs crack where your wheels wind.
A woman like that is not ashamed to die.
I have been her kind.

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Some women marry houses. It's another kind of skin; it has a heart, a mouth, a liver and bowel movements.

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I am teaching...It's kind of like having a love affair with a rhinoceros.

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His awful skin Stretched out by some tradesman is like my skin, here between my fingers, a kind of webbing, a kind of frog.

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