Anne Sexton: Trending quotes (page 2)

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

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

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

“Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.”

“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.”

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

“I am God, la de dah.”

“Suicide is, after all, the opposite of the poem.”

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

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

“Once I was beautiful. Now I am myself,
Counting this row and that row of moccasins
Waiting on the silent shelf.”

“the man
inside of woman
ties a knot
so that they will
never again be separate…”

“And we are magic talking to itself,
noisy and alone. I am queen of all my sins
forgotten. Am I still lost?
Once I was beautiful. Now I am myself”

“Writers are such phonies: they sometimes have wise insights but they don't live by them at all. That's what writers are like… you think they know something, but usually they are just messes.”

“Yet love enters my blood like an I. V.,
dripping in its little white moments.”

“God owns heaven but He craves the earth.”

“The soul was not cured,
it was as full as a clothes closet
of dresses that did not fit.”

“Take your foot out of the graveyard,
they are busy being dead.”

“Now I am going back
And I have ripped my hand
From your hand as I said I would
And I have made it this far…”