“I like you; your eyes are full of language."
[Letter to Anne Clarke, July 3, 1964. ]”
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Anne Sexton 120
poet from the United States 1928–1974Related quotes

Eight or Nine Wise Words About Letter-Writing (1890)

"Many Worlds Are Born Tonight" - Live performance at The Tin Angel (24 July 1999) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGdnjC48aJg
Many Worlds Are Born Tonight (1998)
“I always say that a man with one language is like a man with one eye.”
Source: Novels, Lamb (1980), Ch.1 - p.8

The Other World (1657)
Context: When I opened a box, I found inside something made of metal, somewhat like our clocks, full of an endless number of little springs and tiny machines. It was indeed a book, but it was a miraculous one that had no pages or printed letters. It was a book to be read not with eyes but with ears. When anyone wants to read, he winds up the machine with a large number of keys of all kinds. Then he turns the indicator to the chapter he wants to listen to. As though from the mouth of a person or a musical instrument come all the distinct and different sounds that the upper-class Moon-beings use in their language.
When I thought about this marvelous way of making books, I was no longer surprised that the young people of that country know more at the age of sixteen or eighteen than the greybeards of our world. They can read as soon as they can talk and are never at a loss for reading material. In their rooms, on walks, in town, during voyages, on foot or on horseback, they can have thirty books in their pockets or hanging on the pommels of their saddles. They need only wind a spring to hear one or more chapters or a whole book, if they wish. Thus you always have with you all the great men, both living and dead, who speak to you in their own voices.

“Immortality is like trying to carve your initials in a block of ice in the middle of July.”

“Do you love me Hero?" His pale green eyes were full of torment. "Do you love me like I love you?”
Source: Notorious Pleasures