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“Being kissed on the back
of the knee is a moth
at the windowscreen….”

Source: Love Poems

“O starry night, This is how I want to die”

Source: The Complete Poems

“I am God, la de dah.”

Source: The Complete Poems

“Don't bite till you know if it's bread or stone.”

Source: Complete Poems

“She is so naked and singular.
She is the sum of yourself and your dream.
Climb her like a monument, step after step.
She is solid.”

“Depression is boring, I think
and I would do better to make
some soup and light up the cave.”

“All day I've built
a lifetime and now
the sun sinks to
undo it.”

Source: The Complete Poems

“The joy that isn't shared dies young.”

“I’m lost. And it’s my own fault. It’s about time I figured out that I can’t ask people to keep me found.”

“Everyone in me is a bird
I am beating all my wings”

Source: Love Poems

“I like you; your eyes are full of language."

[Letter to Anne Clarke, July 3, 1964. ]”

“As for me, I am a watercolor.
I wash off.”

"For My Lover, Returning to His Wife"
Love Poems (1969)

“Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.”

“I know that I have died before—once in November.”

“Only my books anoint me,
and a few friends,
those who reach into my veins.”

Source: The Complete Poems

“I am a collection of dismantled almosts.”

Source: Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters

“God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.”

“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.”

Source: The Complete Poems

“She is so naked and singular
She is the sum of yourself and your dream.
Climb her like a monument, step after step.
She is solid.
As for me, I am a watercolor.
I wash off.

(For My Lover, Returning To His Wife)”

Source: Selected Poems

“Perhaps I am no one.
True, I have a body
and I cannot escape from it.
I would like to fly out of my head,
but that is out of the question.”