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Two daughters, pretty enough
but with hearts like blackjacks. — Anne Sexton

I think it will be a miracle if I don't someday end up killing myself. — Anne Sexton

My husband sings Baa Baa black sheep and we pretend
that all's certain and good, that the marriage won't end. — Anne Sexton

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

The bottom line is that your performance is made in the editing room. — Brent Sexton

Anne Sexton knows the mind, Walt Whitman knows grass, but Emily Dickinson knows everything. — Matt Haig

It would be pleasant to be drunk. — Anne Sexton

In a dream you are never eighty. — Anne Sexton

I would like to bury
all the hating eyes
under the sand somewhere ... — Anne Sexton

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

Daylight is nobody's friend. God comes in like a landlord and flashes on his brassy lamp. — Anne Sexton

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

Today life opened inside me like an egg ... — Anne Sexton

The joy that isn't shared dies young. — Anne Sexton

The body is a damn hard thing to kill. — Anne Sexton

Just because it offends you doesn't mean it violates your rights. You don't have a right to not be offended — Marie Sexton

Don't bite till you know if it's bread or stone. — Anne Sexton

We talked death with burned-up intensity, both of us drawn to it like moths to an electric light bulb. Sucking on it! — Anne Sexton

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

And the aura of you remains, remains, remains ... — Anne Sexton

Just once I knew what life was for. — Anne Sexton

There is no word for time.
Today we will
not think to number another summer
or watch its white bird into the ground. — Anne Sexton

My sleeping pill is white.
It is a splendid pearl;
it floats me out of myself,
my stung skin as alien
as a loose bolt of cloth. — Anne Sexton

Poor thing.
To die and never see Brooklyn. — Anne Sexton

Take your foot out of the graveyard, they are busy being dead. — Anne Sexton

Man is eating the earth up like a candy bar. — Anne Sexton

[I] have fantasies of killing myself and thus being the powerful one not the powerless one. — Anne Sexton

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

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

Jewels! Today each twig is important,
each ring, each infection, each form
is all that the gods must have meant. — Anne Sexton

All I am is the trick of words writing themselves. — Anne Sexton

It's all a matter of history.
Brandy is no solace.
Librium only lies me down
like a dead snow queen.
Yes! I am still the criminal. — Anne Sexton

I imitatea memory of beliefthat I do not own. — Anne Sexton

Poetry led me by the hand out of madness. — Anne Sexton

Life is a trick, life is a kitten in a sack. — Anne Sexton

Somebody sees me, and I see myself through them. Then it's all gone, the whole world falls apart. — Anne Sexton

If someone burns out your eye
I will take your socket
and use it for an ashtray. — Anne Sexton

My mouth blooms like a cut. — Anne Sexton

Now, in my middle age,
about nineteen in the head I'd say,
I am rowing, I am rowing ... — Anne Sexton

Pain engraves a deeper memory. — Anne Sexton

I think I've been writing black poems all along, wearing my white mask. I'm always the victim ... but no longer! — Anne Sexton

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

Only in this hoarded span will love persevere. — Anne Sexton

I'm in pain because the day is ending and somehow I am never healing. — Anne Sexton

Yesterday I did not want to be borrowed but this is the typewriter that sits before me and love is where yesterday is at. — Anne Sexton

My safe, safe psychosis is broken.
It was hard.
It was made of stone.
It covered my face like a mask.
But it has cracked. — Anne Sexton

Yet love enters my blood like an I.V.,
dripping in its little white moments. — Anne Sexton

Let God be some tribal female who is known but forbidden. — Anne Sexton

The tongue, the Chinese say,
is like a sharp knife:
it kills
without drawing blood. — Anne Sexton

I've grown tired of love
You are the trouble with me
I watch you walk right by — Anne Sexton

The soul was not cured,
it was as full as a clothes closet
of dresses that did not fit. — Anne Sexton

What a lay me down this is
with two pink, two orange,
two green, two white goodnights. — Anne Sexton

My heart is on a budget.
It keeps me on the brink. — Anne Sexton

This November there seems to be nothing to say. — Anne Sexton

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

Now I am going back
And I have ripped my hand
From your hand as I said I would
And I have made it this far ... — Anne Sexton

The man
inside of woman
ties a knot
so that they will
never again be separate ... — Anne Sexton

I cannot walk an inch / without trying to walk to God. — Anne Sexton

I am in my own mind.
I am locked in the wrong house. — Anne Sexton

My death from the wrists, two name tags, blood worn like a corsage to bloom one on the left and one on the right. — Anne Sexton

Everybody wants something, and everybody expects something. They never ask how I'm doing or if I'm happy. They don't ask what I want. — Marie Sexton

I find the single most valuable tool in my darkroom is my trash can — John Sexton

I'd like to widen my education. I'd definitely like to widen my film range. I mean, I'd love to do some theater. — Brendan Sexton III

And there you are. And I liked you a lot today. A lot. And I want to talk to you. Selfishly. — Anne Sexton

A starving man doesn't ask what the meal is. — Anne Sexton

When I'm writing, I know I'm doing the thing I was born to do. — Anne Sexton

I am so imperfect, can you love me when really my soul is deformed? Will you love me anyhow? — Anne Sexton

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

Everyone in me is a bird
I am beating all my wings — Anne Sexton

I tell it stories now and then
and feed it images like honey.
I will not speculate today
with poems that think they're money. — Anne Sexton

Love your self's self where it lives. — Anne Sexton

It is June. I am tired of being brave.

from "The Truth The Dead Know — Anne Sexton

Suicide is, after all, the opposite of the poem. — Anne Sexton

The beautiful feeling after writing a poem is on the whole better even than after sex, and that's saying a lot. — Anne Sexton

Well, one gets out of bed and the planets don't always hiss or muck up the day, each day. — Anne Sexton

Maybe, although my heart
is a kitten of butter,
I am blowing it up like a zeppelin. — Anne Sexton

We are all writing God's poem. — Anne Sexton

Yes I try to kill myself in small amounts, an innocuous occupation. Actually I'm hung up on it. — Anne Sexton

Sorrow is easier than guilt. — Anne Sexton

Our eyes are full of terrible confessions. — Anne Sexton

The town does not exist
except where one black-haired tree slips
up like a drowned woman into the hot sky. — Anne Sexton

At night the bats will beat on the trees, knowing it all, seeing what they sensed all day.... — Anne Sexton

Being sixteen in the pants I died full of questions — Anne Sexton

Augustine, Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath are confessional writers and all three make me sick. I have nothing in common with them. — Joni Mitchell

I watched '12 Angry Men' when I was a kid. It blew me away definitely. — Brent Sexton

Suddenly I'm not half the girl
I used to be.
There's a shadow hanging over me ...
From me to you out of my electric devil ... — Anne Sexton

And we shall walk through all our days
with love remembered and love renewed. — Robert Sexton

To be without God is to be a snake / who wants to swallow an elephant. — Anne Sexton

It is not enough to read Hesse
and drink clam chowder,
we must have the answers. — Anne Sexton

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

I am not at home in myself. I am my own stranger. — Anne Sexton

I would like a simple life / yet all night I am laying / poems away in a long box. — Anne Sexton

I said, the poets are there
I hear them singing and lying
around their round table
and around me still. — Anne Sexton

Conversion is not for the faint of heart. It is a difficult process, requiring effort and perseverance. — John Sexton

Rocks crumble, make new forms,
oceans move the continents,
mountains rise up and down like ghosts
yet all is natural, all is change. — Anne Sexton

I have been cut in two. — Anne Sexton

I realized something on the ride. I realized if I wait until I'm not scared to try new things, then I'll never get to try them at all. — Marie Sexton

He said loudly 'I am not dying' and I said 'for me you are. — Anne Sexton

How you choose to lose yourself matters. Trust me, it's all in the 'how'. It matters a lot. — Anne Sexton

I don't care, I love you anyhow. It is too late to turn you out of my heart. Part of you lives here. — Anne Sexton