627 Quotes by Anne Sexton

I like you; your eyes are full of language."[Letter to Anne Clarke, July 3, 1964.]

Watch out for intellect,because it knows so much it knows nothingand leaves you hanging upside down,mouthing knowledge as your heartfalls out of your mouth.

Clover['s] eyes are full of language.

Live or die, but don't poison everything.

Do you like me?”No answer.Silence bounced, fell off his tongueand sat between usand clogged my throat.It slaughtered my trust.It tore cigarettes out of my mouth.We exchanged blind words,and I did not cry,I did not beg,but blackness filled my ears,blackness lunged in my heart,and something that had been good,a sort of kindly oxygen,turned into a gas oven.

As it has been said:Love and a coughcannot be concealed.Even a small cough.Even a small love.

I am stuffing your mouth with yourpromises and watching you vomit them out upon my face.

Only my books anoint me, and a few friends, those who reach into my veins.

Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.