Anne Sexton: Trending quotes (page 3)

“Talk to me about sadness. I talk about it too much in my own head but I never mind others talking about it either; I occasionally feel like I tremendously need others to talk about it as well.”

“I am crazy as hell, but I know it. And knowing it is a kind of sanity that makes the sickness worse.”

“Fee-fi-fo-fum -
Now I'm borrowed.
Now I'm numb.”

“The beautiful feeling after writing a poem is on the whole better even than after sex, and that's saying a lot.”

“I burn the way money burns.”

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

“Poetry is my life, my postmark, my hands, my kitchen, my face.”

“Sometimes I fly like an eagle but with the wings of a wren”

“And if I tried
to give you something else,
something outside myself,
you would not know
that the worst of anyone
can be, finally,
an accident of hope”

“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.”

“But I can't. Need is not quite belief.”

“Even without wars, life is dangerous.”

“When I'm writing, I know I'm doing the thing I was born to do.”

“Then all this became history.
Your hand found mine.
Life rushed to my fingers like a blood clot.
Oh, my carpenter,
the fingers are rebuilt.
They dance with yours.”

“The future is a fog that is still hanging out over the sea, a boat that floats home or does not.”

“Yesterday I did not want to be borrowed but this is the typewriter that sits before me and love is where yesterday is at.”

“Give me your skin
as sheer as a cobweb,
let me open it up
and listen in and scoop out the dark.”

“You who have inhabited me
in the deepest and most broken place,
are going, going”

“Don’t worry if they say you’re crazy. They said that about me and yet I was saner than all of them. I knew. No matter. You know. Insane or sane, you know. It’s a good thing to know - no matter what they call it.”