Anne Sexton: Hand

Anne Sexton was poet from the United States. Explore interesting quotes on hand.

Anne Sexton: 240 quotes35 likes

“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…”

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

“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.”

“I am your dwarf.
I am the enemy within.
I am the boss of your dreams.
See. Your hand shakes.
It is not palsy or booze.
It is your Doppelganger
trying to get out.
Beware… Beware…”

“It would be pleasant to be drunk:
faithless to my tongue and hands,
giving up the boundaries
for the heroic gin.
Dead drunk is the term I think of,
insensible,
neither cool nor warm,
without a head or foot.
To be drunk is to be intimate with a fool.
I will try it shortly.”

"Letter Written During a January Northeaster"
All My Pretty Ones (1962)

“I am murdering me, where I kneeled at your kiss.
I am pushing knives through the hands
that created two into one.
Our hands do not bleed at this,
they lie still in their dishonor.”

"Killing the Love" from The Divorce Papers
45 Mercy Street (1976)

“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.”

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