Quote

Suicide is, after all, the opposite of the poem.

Anne Sexton

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Anne Sexton
Age: 45 †
Born: 1928
Born: November 9
Died: 1974
Died: October 4
Poet
Writer
Newton
Massachusetts
Anne Gray Harvey
Poem
Opposite
Suicide
Opposites

More quotes by Anne Sexton

Image
I leave you, home, when I'm ripped from the doorstep by commerce or fate. Then I submit to the awful subway of the world.
Anne Sexton
Image
I have been cut in two.
Anne Sexton
Image
... a starving man doesn't ask what the meal is.
Anne Sexton
Image
I am teaching... This year it's kind of like having a love affair with a rhinoceros.
Anne Sexton
Image
Perhaps I am no one. True, I have a body and I cannot escape from it. I would like to fly out of my head, but that is out of the question.
Anne Sexton
Image
Sometimes I fly like an eagle but with the wings of a wren
Anne Sexton
Image
Big heart, wide as a watermelon, but wise as birth, there is so much abundance in the people I have.
Anne Sexton
Image
The family story tells, and it was told true, of my great-grandfather who begat eight genius children and bought twelve almost new grand pianos. He left a considerable estate when he died.
Anne Sexton
Image
The windows, the starving windows that drive the trees like nails into my heart.
Anne Sexton
Image
With this pen I take in hand my selves and with these dead disciples I will grapple. Though rain curses the window let the poem be made.
Anne Sexton
Image
I am out of practice at living. You are as brave as a motorcycle.
Anne Sexton
Image
Rats live on no evil star
Anne Sexton
Image
I tied down time with a rope but it came back. Then I put my head in a death bowl and my eyes shut up like clams. They didn't come back.
Anne Sexton
Image
All I am is the trick of words writing themselves.
Anne Sexton
Image
I am not lazy. I am on the amphetamine of the soul. I am, each day, typing out the God my typewriter believes in.
Anne Sexton
Image
Don't bite till you know if it's bread or stone.
Anne Sexton
Image
No matter whose bed you die in the bed will be yours for your voyage onto the surgical andiron of God.
Anne Sexton
Image
Despite my asbestos gloves, the cough is filling me with black, and a red powder seeps through my veins.
Anne Sexton
Image
I love the word warm. It is almost unbearable-- so moist and breathlike.
Anne Sexton
Image
For forty days, for forty nights Jesus put one foot in front of the other and the man he carried, if it was a man, became heavier and heavier.
Anne Sexton