Quotes by Anne Sexton

About Anne Sexton:

Anne Sexton was an American poet, known for her highly personal, confessional verse. She won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1967 for her book Live or Die. Themes of her poetry include her long battle against depression and mania, suicidal tendencies, and various intimate details from her private life, including her relationships with her husband and children.
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Death, I need my little addiction to you. I 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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Depression is boring, I think and I would do better to make some soup and light up the cave.

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I like you; your eyes are full of language." [Letter to Anne Clarke, July 3, 1964.]

Anne Sexton

And what of the dead? They lie without shoes in the stone boats. They are more like stone than the sea would be if it stopped. They refuse to be blessed, throat, eye and knucklebone.

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Do you like me?” No answer. Silence bounced, fell off his tongue and sat between us and clogged my throat. It slaughtered my trust. It tore cigarettes out of my mouth. We exchanged blind words, and I did not cry, I did not beg, but blackness filled...

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Poetry led me by the hand out of madness.

Anne Sexton

As it has been said: Love and a cough cannot be concealed. Even a small cough. Even a small love.

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The grass as bristly and stout as chives and me wondering when the ground will break and me wondering how anything fragile survives

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Fee-fi-fo-fum - Now I'm borrowed. Now I'm numb.

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Those moments before a poem comes, when the heightened awareness comes over you, and you realize a poem is buried there somewhere, you prepare yourself. I run around, you know, kind of skipping around the house, marvelous elation. It’s as though I ...

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Sometimes the soul takes pictures of things it has wished for, but never seen.

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We were fair game but we have kept out of the cesspool. We are strong. We are the good ones. Do not discover us for we lie together all in green like pond weeds. Hold me, my young dear, hold me.

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But suicides have a special language. Like carpenters they want to know which tools. They never ask why build. Twice I have so simply declared myself, have possessed the enemy, eaten the enemy, have taken on his craft, his magic.

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He turns the key. Presto! It opens this book of odd tales which transform the Brothers Grimm. Transform? As if an enlarged paper clip could be a piece of sculpture. (And it could.)

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KELİMELER Kelimelere dikkat et, Özellikle mucizevi olanlara. Mucizevi olanlar için en iyisini yaparız, Bazen böcek sürüsü gibi toplanırlar Sokmazlar ama bir öpücük bırakırlar. Parmaklar kadar iyi olabilirler. Oturduğun kaya kadar güve...

Anne Sexton

Author Bio

  • NameAnne Sexton
  • Descriptionpoet from the United States
  • AliasesAnne Gray Harvey
  • BornNovember 9, 1928
  • DiedOctober 4, 1974
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionPoet; Author
  • WorksLive Or Die
  • AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship; Pulitzer Prize For Poetry