Source: Selected Poems of Anne Sexton
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“In an old time there was a king as wise as a dictionary.”
Source: Transformations
“Now, in my middle age, about nineteen in the head I'd say, I am rowing, I am rowing.”
Source: Selected Poems of Anne Sexton
Source: Transformations
Source: Words for Dr. Y.: uncollected poems with three stories
“My faith is a great weight hung on a small wire, as doth the spider hang her baby on a thin web.”
Source: 45 Mercy Street
Source: The Awful Rowing Toward God
Source: 45 Mercy Street
Source: Selected Poems of Anne Sexton
“I would like to bury all the hating eyes under the sand somewhere.”
Source: The death notebooks
“No one to hate except the slim fish of memory that slides in and out of my brain.”
Source: 45 Mercy Street
Source: Selected poems
“Let the light be called Day so that men may grow corn or take busses.”
Source: Selected Poems of Anne Sexton
“To tell the truth days are all the same size and words aren't much company.”
Source: Selected Poems of Anne Sexton
Source: The death notebooks
“I am out of practice at living. You are as brave as a motorcycle.”
Source: Selected Poems of Anne Sexton
Source: Selected Poems of Anne Sexton
“life is a trick, life is a kitten in a sack.”
Source: Selected Poems of Anne Sexton
Source: 45 Mercy Street
Source: 45 Mercy Street
Source: Transformations
Source: Words for Dr. Y.: uncollected poems with three stories
“I love the word warm. It is almost unbearable-- so moist and breathlike.”
Source: Words for Dr. Y.: uncollected poems with three stories
Source: Selected poems
Source: The Awful Rowing Toward God
“Nature is full of teeth that come in one by one, then decay, fall out.”
Source: The Awful Rowing Toward God
“Everyone has left me except my muse, that good nurse. She stays in my hand, a mild white mouse.”
Source: Selected Poems of Anne Sexton
Source: Selected Poems of Anne Sexton
Source: Words for Dr. Y.: uncollected poems with three stories
“Our children tremble in their teen-age cribs, whirling off on a thumb or a motorcycle.”
Source: 45 Mercy Street
Source: Words for Dr. Y.: uncollected poems with three stories
Source: Selected Poems of Anne Sexton
Source: Selected Poems of Anne Sexton
“Evil is maybe lying to God. Or better, lying to love.”
Source: The Awful Rowing Toward God
“Jesus saw the multitudes were hungry and He said, Oh Lord, send down a short-order cook.”
Source: Selected Poems of Anne Sexton
Source: Words for Dr. Y.: uncollected poems with three stories
“Let God be some tribal female who is known but forbidden.”
Source: Selected Poems of Anne Sexton
Source: Selected Poems of Anne Sexton