Anne Sexton Quotes

• The Awful Rowing Toward God.

  Anne Sexton

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• It doesn’t matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.

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• The sea is mother-death and she is a mighty female, the one who wins, the one who sucks us all up.

  Anne Sexton

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• I was tired of being a woman, tired of the spoons and the pots, tired of my mouth and my breasts tired of the cosmetics and the silks… I was tired of the gender of things.

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• But suicides have a special language. Like carpenters they want to know which tools. They never ask why build.

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• Whether you are pretty or not, I outlive you, bend down my strange face to yours and forgive you.

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• Now I fold you down, my drunkard, my navigator, my first lost keeper, to love or look at later.

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• Go child, who is my sin and nothing more.

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• Even so, I must admire your skill. You are so gracefully insane.

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• When a life is over, the one you were living for, where do you go?

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• Live or die. But don’t poison everything.

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

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• Watch out for intellect,
  because it knows so much it knows nothing
  and leaves you hanging upside down,
  mouthing knowledge as your heart
  falls out of your mouth.

  Anne Sexton

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• As it has been said:
  Love and a cough
  cannot be concealed.
  Even a small cough.
  Even a small love.

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• The joy that isn’t shared dies young.

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• The beautiful feeling after writing a poem is on the whole better even than after s*x, and that’s saying a lot.

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• Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.

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• Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.

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• Need is not quite belief.

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• Live or die, but don’t poison everything.

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Anne Sexton (28)

Birth:	9th November, 1928
Death:	4th October, 1974
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Poet

About

Anne Sexton was born in Newton, Massachusetts. She was an American poet, known for her highly personal, confessional verse. She won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1967 for her book Live or Die. Themes of her poetry include her long battle against depression and mania, suicidal tendencies, and various intimate details from her private life, including her relationships with her husband and children.  On August 16, 1948, she married Alfred Muller Sexton II and they remained together until 1973. She had two children named Linda Gray and Joyce Ladd.

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