Anne Sexton: Quotes about love

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

Anne Sexton: 240 quotes35 likes

“As it has been said:
Love and a cough
cannot be concealed.
Even a small cough.
Even a small love.”

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

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

Source: Love Poems

“A woman who writes feels too much,
those trances and portents!
As if cycles and children and islands
weren't enough; as if mourners and gossips
and vegetables were never enough.
She thinks she can warm the stars.
A writer is essentially a spy.
Dear love, I am that girl.”

"The Black Art"
All My Pretty Ones (1962)

“You said the anger would come back
just as the love did.”

Again and Again and Again"
Love Poems (1969)

“What can I do with this memory?
Shake the bones out of it?
Defoliate the smile?
Stub out the chin with cigarettes?
Take the face of the man I love
and squeeze my foot into it,
when all the while my heart is making a museum?
I love you the way the oboe plays.
I love you the way skinny dipping makes my body feel.
I love you the way a ripe artichoke tastes.
Yet I fear you,
as one in the desert fears the sun.”

"Waking Alone" from The Divorce Papers
45 Mercy Street (1976)

“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.”

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

“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.”

"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.”

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

“Love! That red disease”

Anne Sexton book Live or Die

"Menstruation at Forty"
Live or Die (1966)

“All who love have lied.”

"The Operation"
All My Pretty Ones (1962)