627 Quotes by Anne Sexton

I remember the stink of the liverwurst. How I was put on a platter and laid between the mayonnaise and the bacon. The rhythm of the refrigerator had been disturbed.

After a disaster strikes, it can be very devastating and very challenging. You’re going to need a lot of strength and energy, and the American Red Cross suggests you go for the high protein items.

Take a woman talking, purging herself with rhymes, drumming words out like a typewriter, planting words in you like grass seed. You’ll move off.

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

For forty days, for forty nights Jesus put one foot in front of the other and the man he carried, if it was a man, became heavier and heavier.

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

And so she danced until she was dead, a subterranean figure, her tongue flicking in and out like a gas jet.

I think it will be a miracle if I don’t someday end up killing myself.

Man is a bird full of mud, I say aloud. And death looks on with a casual eye and scratches his anus.