“Being kissed on the back of the knee is a moth at the windowscreen.”
Source: Love Poems
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Famous Anne Sexton Quotes
“As it has been said: Love and a cough cannot be concealed. Even a small cough. Even a small love.”
Source: Selected Poems of Anne Sexton
Source: Selected Poems of Anne Sexton
“Everyone in me is a bird I am beating all my wings”
Source: Love Poems
Source: Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters
Source: Selected Poems of Anne Sexton
Source: Selected Poems of Anne Sexton
“O starry night, This is how I want to die”
Source: Selected Poems of Anne Sexton
“Don't bite till you know if it's bread or stone.”
Source: The Awful Rowing Toward God
“Depression is boring, I think and I would do better to make some soup and light up the cave.”
Source: The death notebooks
“Sometimes I fly like an eagle but with the wings of a wren”
Source: The Awful Rowing Toward God
“Poetry is my life, my postmark, my hands, my kitchen, my face.”
Source: Selected Poems of Anne Sexton
“Take your foot out of the graveyard, they are busy being dead.”
“All day I've built a lifetime and now the sun sinks to undo it.”
Source: Selected Poems of Anne Sexton
“I am stuffing your mouth with your promises and watching you vomit them out upon my face.”
Source: 45 Mercy Street
Source: Selected Poems of Anne Sexton
“Even so, I must admire your skill. You are so gracefully insane.”
“The man inside of woman ties a knot so that they will never again be separate.”
Source: Selected Poems of Anne Sexton
“The soul was not cured, it was as full as a clothes closet of dresses that did not fit.”
Source: The Awful Rowing Toward God
“Yet love enters my blood like an I.V., dripping in its little white moments.”
Source: Love Poems
Source: Selected Poems of Anne Sexton
“Only my books anoint me, and a few friends, those who reach into my veins.”
Source: The Awful Rowing Toward God
Source: Words for Dr. Y.: uncollected poems with three stories
Source: Transformations
Source: Love Poems
Source: Selected Poems of Anne Sexton
“Fee-fi-fo-fum - Now I'm borrowed. Now I'm numb.”
Source: Selected Poems of Anne Sexton
Source: El Asesino y otros poemas
Source: The Awful Rowing Toward God
Source: Words for Dr. Y.: uncollected poems with three stories
“Not that it was beautiful, but that I found some order there.”
Source: Selected poems
Source: Transformations
Source: Selected Poems of Anne Sexton
Source: Selected Poems of Anne Sexton
Source: Selected Poems of Anne Sexton
Source: Selected Poems of Anne Sexton
“The little girl skipped by under the wrinkled oak leaves and held fast to a replica of herself.”