627 Quotes by Anne Sexton

sorrow is easier than guilt.

My mouth blooms like a cut.

If the doctors cure then the sun sees it. If the doctors kill then the earth hides it. The doctors should fear arrogance more than cardiac arrest.

Be careful of words, / ... they can be both daisies and bruises.

My safe, safe psychosis is broken. It was hard. It was made of stone. It covered my face like a mask. But it has cracked.

Women tell time by the body. They are like clocks. They are always fastened to the earth, listening for its small animal noises.

There is a good look that I wear like a blood clot. I have sewn it over my left breast. I have made a vocation of it.

Fee-fi-fo-fum - Now I'm borrowed. Now I'm numb.

Big heart, wide as a watermelon, but wise as birth, there is so much abundance in the people I have....