627 Quotes by Anne Sexton

we do not explain my husband's insane abuse and we do not say why your wild-haired wife has fled or that my father opened like a walnut and then was dead. Your palms fold over me like knees. Love is the only use.

Death's in the good-bye.

Thief!- how did you crawl into, crawl down alone into the death I wanted so badly and for so long ...

I was the girl of the chain letter, the girl full of talk of coffins and keyholes, the one of the telephone bills, the wrinkled photo and the lost connections....

My death from the wrists, two name tags, blood worn like a corsage to bloom one on the left and one on the right.

Nature is full of teeth that come in one by one, then decay, fall out.

Yes I try to kill myself in small amounts, an innocuous occupation. Actually I'm hung up on it.

Well, one gets out of bed and the planets don't always hiss or muck up the day, each day.

All the oxygen of the world was in them. All the feet of the babies of the world were in them. All the crotches of the angels of the world were in them. All the morning kisses of Philadelphia were in them.