627 Quotes by Anne Sexton

I must always forget how one word is able to pick out another, to manner another, until I have got something I might have said... but did not.

Sometimes I fly like an eagle but with the wings of a wren

And what of the dead? They lie without shoes in the stone boats. They are more like stone than the sea would be if it stopped. They refuse to be blessed, throat, eye and knucklebone.

Everyone in me is a bird I am beating all my wings

Depression is boring, I think and I would do better to make some soup and light up the cave.

Don't bite till you know if it's bread or stone.

Being kissed on the back of the knee is a moth at the windowscreen....

Rats live on no evil star

She is so naked and singular. She is the sum of yourself and your dream. Climb her like a monument, step after step. She is solid.