627 Quotes by Anne Sexton

The tongue, the Chinese say, is like a sharp knife: it kills without drawing blood.

Once upon a time we were all born, popped out like jelly rolls forgetting our fishdom, the pleasuring seas, the country of comfort, spanked into the oxygens of death....

I try to take care and be gentle to them. Words and eggs must be handled with care. Once broken they are impossible things to repair.

Of course the New Testament is very small. Its mouth opens four times as out-of-date as a prehistoric monster, yet somehow man-made....

All in all, I'd say, the world is strangling.

I think I've been writing black poems all along, wearing my white mask. I'm always the victim ... but no longer!

You lay, a small knuckle on my white bed; lay, that fist like a snail, small and strong at my breast. Your lips are animals; you are fed with love. At first, hunger is not wrong.

I am torn in two but I will conquer myself.

I am teaching...It's kind of like having a love affair with a rhinoceros.