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“He puts his bones back on,
Turning the clock back an hour.
She knows flesh, that skin balloon,
the unbound limbs, the boards,
the roof, the removable roof.
She is his selection, part time.
You know the story too! Look,
when it is over he places her,
like a phone, back on the hook.”

Anne Sexton

"You All Know the Story of the Other Woman"
Love Poems (1969)

“Catch me. I'm your disease.”

Anne Sexton

"Eighteen Days Without You": December 18th
Love Poems (1969)

“I grow old on my bitterness.”

Anne Sexton book Live or Die

"Two Sons"
Live or Die (1966)

“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.”

Anne Sexton

"Admonitions to a Special Person" (1974) from Last Poems frameless QOTD 2007·11·09 Sound file
Poems 1971-1973 (1981)

“Fact: death too is in the egg.
Fact: the body is dumb, the body is meat.
And tomorrow the O. R. Only the summer was sweet.”

Anne Sexton

"The Operation"
All My Pretty Ones (1962)

“Love your self's self where it lives.
There is no special God to refer to; or if there is,
why did I let you grow
in another place. You did not know my voice
when I came back to call. All the superlatives
of tomorrow's white tree and mistletoe
will not help you know the holidays you had to miss.”

Anne Sexton

"The Double Image"
To Bedlam and Part Way Back (1960)

“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 worry with like.
We walk away like love.”

Anne Sexton

"To Like, To Love"
Poems 1971-1973 (1981)

“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.”

Anne Sexton

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

“My mouth blooms like a cut.
I've been wronged all year, tedious
nights, nothing but rough elbows in them
and delicate boxes of Kleenex calling crybaby
crybaby, you fool!”

Anne Sexton

"The Kiss"
Love Poems (1969)

“I am, each day,
typing out the God
my typewriter believes in.
Very quick. Very intense,
like a wolf at a live heart.”

Anne Sexton

"Frenzy"
The Awful Rowing Toward God (1975)

“With a tongue like a razor he will kiss
the mother, the child,
and we three will color the stars black
in memory of his mother
who kept him chained to the food tree
or turned him on and off like a water faucet
and made women through all these hazy years
the enemy with a heart of lies.”

Anne Sexton book The Book of Folly

"The Wifebeater"
The Book of Folly (1972)

“In my sights I carve him
like a sculptor. I mold out
his last look at everyone.
I carry his eyes and his
brain bone at every position.
I know his male sex and I do
march over him with my index finger.
His mouth and his anus are one.
I am at the center of feeling.”

Anne Sexton book The Book of Folly

"The Assassin"
The Book of Folly (1972)

“Blue eyes wash off sometimes.”

Anne Sexton

"Letters to Dr. Y."
Words for Dr. Y (1978)

“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?”

Anne Sexton

"Letters to Dr. Y."
Words for Dr. Y (1978)

“God is only mocked by believers.”

Anne Sexton

"Letters to Dr. Y."
Words for Dr. Y (1978)

“In a dream you are never eighty.”

Anne Sexton

"Old"
All My Pretty Ones (1962)

“We are all writing God's poem.”

Anne Sexton

As quoted by Erica Jong, in "Into the lion's den" in The Guardian (26 October 2000) http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2000/oct/26/features11.g2

“Love! That red disease”

Anne Sexton book Live or Die

"Menstruation at Forty"
Live or Die (1966)

“All who love have lied.”

Anne Sexton

"The Operation"
All My Pretty Ones (1962)

“My eyes, those sluts, those whores, would play no more.”

Anne Sexton book The Book of Folly

"Killing the Spring"
The Book of Folly (1972)