627 Quotes by Anne Sexton

Not that it was beautiful, but that, in the end, there was a certain sense of order there; something worth learning in that narrow diary of my mind.

I’m the crazy one who thinks that words reach people.

I am in my own mind. I am locked in the wrong house.

We are America. We are the coffin fillers. We are the grocers of death. We pack them in crates like cauliflowers.

The sky breaks. It sags and breathes upon my face. in the presence of mine enemies, mine enemies The world is full of enemies. There is no safe place.

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

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...

When I lie down to love, old dwarf heart shakes her head. Like an imbecile she was born old.

My life has appeared unclothed in court, detail by detail, death-bone witness by death-bone witness, and I was shamed at the verdict...