627 Quotes by Anne Sexton

I am alone here in my own mind. There is no map and there is no road. It is one of a kind just as yours is.

pulling off the fat diamond engagement ring, pulling off the elopement wedding ring, and holding them, clicking them in thumb and forefinger, the indent of twenty-five years, like a tiny rip leaving its mark....

It is June. I am tired of being brave.

stop the darkness and its amputations and find the real McCoy in the private holiness of my hands.

this is no dream just my oily life where the people are alibis and the street is unfindable for an entire lifetime.

Dead drunk is the term I think of, insensible, neither cool nor warm, without a head or a foot. To be drunk is to be intimate with a fool.

Take the brown eyes of my father, those gun shots, those mean muds. Bury them. Take the blue eyes of my mother, naked as the sea....

To tell the truth days are all the same size and words aren't much company.

O fallen angel, the companion within me, whisper something holy before you pinch me into the grave.