“There is rust in my mouth,the stain of an old kiss.”
Source: 45 Mercy Street
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“God is only mocked by believers.”
Source: Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters
“Blue eyes wash off sometimes.”
Source: Words for Dr. Y.: uncollected poems with three stories
“I wonder if the artist ever lives his life--he is so busy recreating it.”
Source: Anne Sexton: A Self Portrait in Letters
“Fear / a motor, / pumps me around and around / until I fade slowly.”
“Mood can be as important as sense.”
Source: Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters
Source: Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters
“But my future is a secret. / It is as shy as a mole.”
Source: Words for Dr. Y.: uncollected poems with three stories
Source: Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters
“I cannot walk an inch / without trying to walk to God.”
Source: The Awful Rowing Toward God
“Today God gives milk / and I have the pail.”
Source: The Awful Rowing Toward God
“To be without God is to be a snake / who wants to swallow an elephant.”
Source: The Awful Rowing Toward God
“sorrow is easier than guilt.”
Source: Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters
“Be careful of words, / ... they can be both daisies and bruises.”
Source: Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters
“I would like a simple life / yet all night I am laying / poems away in a long box.”
“Images are the heart of poetry ... You're not a poet without imagery.”
“Psychiatry is a dirty mirror.”
Source: Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters
“I am not at home in myself. I am my own stranger.”
Source: Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters
“A woman / who loves a woman / is forever young.”
Source: Selected Poems of Anne Sexton
“I think it will be a miracle if I don't someday end up killing myself.”
Source: Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters
“[I] have fantasies of killing myself and thus being the powerful one not the powerless one.”
Source: Anne Sexton: A Self Portrait in Letters
“The trouble with therapy is that it makes life go backwards.”
Source: Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters
Source: Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters
“I'm the crazy one who thinks that words reach people.”
Source: Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters
Source: Selected Poems of Anne Sexton
Source: Words for Dr. Y.: uncollected poems with three stories
“I was only sitting here in my white study with the awful black words pushing me around.”
“My business is words. Words are like labels, or coins, or better, like swarming bees.”
Source: Selected Poems of Anne Sexton
Source: The Awful Rowing Toward God
Source: Selected Poems of Anne Sexton
“All considerations for these human remains! They must have an escort! They are classified!”
Source: Love Poems
Source: The Awful Rowing Toward God
“God went out of me as if the sea dried up like sandpaper, as if the sun became a latrine.”
Source: The Awful Rowing Toward God