Anne Sexton Quotes

To love another is something like prayer and it can't be planned, you just fall into its arms because your belief undoes your disbelief. "Admonitions to a Special Person" (1974) from Last Poems

Anne Sexton

"Admonitions to a Special Person" - 1974 from Last Poems - Poems 1971-1973 - 1981.

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Earth, earth riding your merry-go-round toward extinction, right to the roots thickening the oceans like gravy, festering in your caves, you are becoming a latrine.

Anne Sexton

"As It Was Written" from Last Poems - Poems 1971-1973 - 1981.

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We all walk softly away. We would stay and be the nurse but there are too many of us and we are too worried to help. It is love that walks away and yet we have terrible mouths and soft milk hands. We...

Anne Sexton

"To Like, To Love" - Poems 1971-1973 - 1981.

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Here in the hospital, I say, that is not my body, not my body. I am not here for the doctors to read like a recipe. "August 17th" from Scorpio, Bad Spider, Die: The Horoscope Poems

Anne Sexton

"August 17th" from Scorpio, Bad Spider, Die: The Horoscope Poems - Words for Dr. Y - 1978.

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Blue eyes wash off sometimes

Anne Sexton

"Letters to Dr. Y."- Words for Dr. Y - 1978.

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God is only mocked by believers.

Anne Sexton

- Words for Dr. Y - 1978."Letters to Dr. Y."

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I begin again, Dr.Y, this neverland journal, full of my own sense of filth. Why else keep a journal, if not to examine your own filth? "Letters to Dr. Y."

Anne Sexton

"Letters to Dr. Y."- Words for Dr. Y - 1978.

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Death, I need my little addiction to you. need that tiny voice who, even as I rise from the sea, all woman, all there, says kill me, kill me.

Anne Sexton

"Letters to Dr. Y."- Words for Dr. Y - 1978.

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There is rust in my mouth, the stain of an old kiss.

Anne Sexton

"The Lost Lie" from The Divorce Papers- 45 Mercy Street - 1976.

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I am stuffing your mouth with your promises and watching you vomit them out upon my face.

Anne Sexton

"Killing the Love"- 45 Mercy Street - 1976.

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