Anne Sexton Short Quotes

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Little Girl, My Stringbean, My Lovely Woman.

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A woman is her mother.
That's the main thing.

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A shoe with legs,
a stone dropped from heaven...

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I am not at home in myself. I am my own stranger.

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I imitate
a memory of belief
that I do not own.

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I cannot walk an inch
without trying to walk to God.

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There is rust in my mouth,
the stain of an old kiss.

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My eyes, those sluts, those whores, would play no more.

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Your courage was a small coal
that you kept swallowing.

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Abundance is scooped from abundance yet abundance remains.

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You said the anger would come back
just as the love did.

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The trouble with therapy is that it makes life go backwards.

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Not that it was beautiful, but that I found some order there.

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

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Inside many of us
is a small old man
who wants to get out.

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All day I've built a lifetime and now the sun sinks to undo it.

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Be careful of words,
... they can be both daisies and bruises.

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Oh, darling, let your body in,
let it tie you in,
in comfort.

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I see myself as one would see another.
I have been cut in two.

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Fear
a motor,
pumps me around and around
until I fade slowly.

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Thumbs grow into my throat.
I wear slaps like a spot of rouge.

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Even so, I must admire your skill.
You are so gracefully insane.

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I am out of practice at living.
You are as brave as a motorcycle.

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Dearest,
although everything has happened,
nothing has happened.

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Images are the heart of poetry... You're not a poet without imagery.

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To be without God is to be a snake
who wants to swallow an elephant.

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

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Let the light be called Day so that men may grow corn or take busses.

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It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.

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Being kissed on the back of the knee is a moth at the windowscreen....

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