627 Quotes by Anne Sexton

I rot on the wall, my own Dorian Gray.

Jewels! Today each twig is important, each ring, each infection, each form is all that the gods must have meant.

The Witch's Life" When I was a child there was an old woman in our neighborhood whom we called The Witch. All day she peered from her second story window from behind the wrinkled curtains and sometimes she would open the window and yell: Get out of my life! She had hair like kelp and a voice like a boulder. I think of her sometimes now and wonder if I am becoming her.

Our checks are pale. Our wallets are invalids. Past due, past due, is what our bills are saying and yet we kiss in every corner, scuffing the dust and the cat. Love rises like bread as we go bust.

Don’t worry if they say you’re crazy. They said that about me and yet I was saner than all of them. I knew. No matter. You know. Insane or sane, you know. It’s a good thing to know - no matter what they call it.

Our children tremble in their teen-age cribs, whirling off on a thumb or a motorcycle....

And tonight our skin, our bones, that have survived our fathers, will meet, delicate in the hold, fastened together in an intricate lock. Then one of us will shout, "My need is more desperate!" and I will eat you slowly with kisses even though the killer in you has gotten out.

Once I was a couple. I was my own king and queen with cheese and bread and rosé on the rocks of Rockport.

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