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Anne Sexton Inspirational Quotes (185)

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No matter whose bed you die in the bed will be yours for your voyage onto the surgical andiron of God.
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I am not lazy. I am on the amphetamine of the soul. I am, each day, typing out the God my typewriter believes in.
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In a dream you are never eighty.
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I think I've been writing black poems all along, wearing my white mask. I'm always the victim ... but no longer!
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True. There is a beautiful Jesus. He is frozen to his bones like a chunk of beef. How desperately he wanted to pull his arms in! How desperately I touch his vertical and horizontal axes! But I can't. Need is not quite belief.
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Though rain curses the window let the poem be made.
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My mouth blooms like a cut.
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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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It was as if a morning-glory had bloomed in her throat, and all that blue and small pollen ate into my heart, violent and religious
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life is a trick, life is a kitten in a sack.
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... and my love stays bitterly glowing, spasms of it will not sleep, and I am helpless and thirsty and need shade but there is no one to cover me- not even God.
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As it has been said: Love and a cough cannot be concealed. Even a small cough. Even a small love.
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It's a little mad, but I believe I am many people. When I am writing a poem, I feel I am the person who should have written it.
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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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I remember the stink of the liverwurst. How I was put on a platter and laid between the mayonnaise and the bacon. The rhythm of the refrigerator had been disturbed.
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I hoard books. They are people who do not leave.
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The windows, the starving windows that drive the trees like nails into my heart.
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All who love have lied.
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Writers are such phonies: they sometimes have wise insights but they don't live by them at all. That's what writers are like...you think they know something, but usually they are just messes.
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Images are probably the most important part of the poem. First of all you want to tell a story, but images are what are going to shore it up and get to the heart of the matter.
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The beautiful feeling after writing a poem is on the whole better even than after sex, and that's saying a lot.
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Being kissed on the back of the knee is a moth at the windowscreen.
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When someone kisses someone or flushes the toilet it is my other who sits in a ball and cries. My other beats a tin drum in my heart. My other hangs up laundry as I try to sleep. My other cries and cries and cries when I put on a cocktail dress.
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Here in the hospital, I say,that is not my body, not my body.I am not here for the doctorsto read like a recipe.
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