Anne Sexton Bags

Description: Anne Sexton, American poet known for her personal, confessional verse. She won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1967 for her book Live or Die

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Description: Anne Sexton, American poet known for her personal, confessional verse. She won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1967 for her book Live or Die

Description: A quote from poet Anne Sexton

Description: Anne Sexton

Description: Anne Sexton quote: All who love have lied.

Description: Anne Sexton quote: I was spread out daily and examined for flaws.

Description: Anne Sexton quote: As for me, I am a watercolor. I wash off.

Description: Anne Sexton quote: Only my books anoint me, and a few friends, those who reach into my veins.

Description: Anne Sexton quote: Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.

Description: Anne Sexton quote: I am stuffing your mouth with your promises and watching you vomit them out upon my face.

Description: Anne Sexton quote: Earth, earth riding your merry-go-round toward extinction, right to the roots thickening the oceans like gravy, festering in your caves, you are becoming a latrine.

Description: Anne Sexton quote: I imitate a memory of belief that I do not own.

Description: Anne Sexton quote: I am crazy as hell, but I know it. And knowing it is a kind of sanity that makes the sickness worse.

Description: Anne Sexton quote: To love another is something like prayer and can’t be planned, you just fall into its arms because your belief undoes your disbelief.

Description: Anne Sexton quote: 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.

Description: "That’s what I do: I make coffee and occasionally succumb to suicidal nihilism. But you shouldn’t worry — poetry is still first. Cigarettes and alcohol follow” - Anne Sexton