627 Quotes by Anne Sexton

Some women marry houses. It's another kind of skin; it has a heart, a mouth, a liver and bowel movements.

the heart, this child of myself that resides in the flesh, this ultimate signature of the me, the start of my blindness and sleep, builds a death crèche.

It is a dead heart. It is inside of me. It is a stranger yet once it was agreeable, opening and closing like a clam.

I'm hunting for the truth. It might be a kind of poetic truth, and not just a factual one, because behind everything that happens to you, there is another truth, a secret life.

Maybe, although my heart is a kitten of butter, I am blowing it up like a zeppelin.

The body is a damn hard thing to kill.

I have forgiven all the old actors for dying. A new one comes on with the same lines, like large white growths, in his mouth. The dancers come on from the wings, perfectly mated.

Love your self's self where it lives.

When I lie down to love, old dwarf heart shakes her head. Like an imbecile she was born old.