Anne Sexton
41 quotes
Biography
"As it has been said:Love and a coughcannot be concealed.Even a small cough.Even a small love."
"Watch out for intellect,because it knows so much it knows nothingand leaves you hanging upside down,mouthing knowledge as your heartfalls out of your mouth."
"Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard."
"I am stuffing your mouth with yourpromises and watching you vomit them out upon my face."
"Live or die, but don't poison everything."
"Only my books anoint me, and a few friends, those who reach into my veins."
"Do you like me?”No answer.Silence bounced, fell off his tongueand sat between usand 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 my ears,blackness lunged in my heart,and something that had been good,a sort of kindly oxygen,turned into a gas oven."
"Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance."
"I am God, la de dah."
"Fee-fi-fo-fum -Now I'm borrowed.Now I'm numb."
"The grass as bristly and stout as chives and me wondering when the ground will break and me wondering how anything fragile survives"
"We are all writing God's poem."
"All who love have lied."
"Need is not quite belief."
"In a dream you are never eighty."
"I grow old on my bitterness."
"Love! That red disease —"
"Why have your eyes gone into their own room?"
"I am alive when your fingers are."
"Catch me. I'm your disease."
"My eyes, those sluts, those whores, would play no more."
"God is only mocked by believers."
"Blue eyes wash off sometimes."
"Death's in the good-bye."
"Some women marry houses."