Quotes by Anne Sexton

Anne Sexton

… a starving man doesn’t ask what the meal is.

Hunger

Meals

Men

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… man is eating the earth up like a candy bar.

Bars

Earth

Men

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A woman / who loves a woman / is forever young.

Forever

Forever Young

Sexuality

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All considerations for these human remains! They must have an escort! They are classified!

Consideration

Humans

War

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All I am is the trick of words writing themselves.

Tricks

Writing

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All the oxygen of the world was in them. All the feet of the babies of the world were in them. All the crotches of the angels of the world were in them. All the morning kisses of Philadelphia were in them.

Baby

Happiness

Morning

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All who love have lied.

Lied

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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

Giving

Knows

Worst

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And tonight our skin, our bones, that have survived our fathers, will meet, delicate in the hold, fastened together in an intricate lock. Then one of us will shout, “My need is more desperate!” and I will eat you slowly with kisses even though the killer in you has gotten out.

Father

Kissing

Skins

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And we are magic talking to itself, noisy and alone. I am queen of all my sins forgotten. Am I still lost? Once I was beautiful. Now I am myself

Beautiful

Queens

Talking

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