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Famous Anne Sexton Quotes
“Rejoice with the day lily for it is born for a day to live by the mailbox and glorify the roadside”
“stop the darkness and its amputations and find the real McCoy in the private holiness of my hands.”
“Maybe, although my heart is a kitten of butter, I am blowing it up like a zeppelin.”
“Our eyes are full of terrible confessions.”
“When I lie down to love, old dwarf heart shakes her head. Like an imbecile she was born old.”
“Inside many of us is a small old man who wants to get out.”
“I see myself as one would see another. I have been cut in two.”
“Let there be a heaven so that man may outlive his grasses.”
“Let there be seasons so that our tongues will be rich in asparagus and limes.”
“Poor thing. To die and never see Brooklyn.”
“It would be pleasant to be drunk.”
“One of my secret instructions to myself as a poet is "Whatever you do, don't be boring."”
“Today life opened inside me like an egg.”
“I think of myself as writing for one person, that one perfect reader who understands and loves.”
“...became a woman who learned her own skin and dug into her soul and found it full.”
“It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.”
“God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.”
“Even without wars, life is dangerous.”
“Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.”
“God owns heaven but He craves the earth.”