627 Quotes by Anne Sexton

And there you are. And I liked you a lot today. A lot. And I want to talk to you. Selfishly.

I have a room of my own. Rain drops onto it. Rain drops down like worms From the trees onto my frontal bone. Haunted, always haunted by rain, the room affirms The words that I will make alone.— Mother And Jack and The Rain.

Yesterday I did not want to be borrowed but this is the typewriter that sits before me and love is where yesterday is at.

I am a collection of dismantled almosts.

…and she wore gowns as lovely as kisses…

Loving me with my shoes off means loving my long brown legs, sweet dears, as good as spoons; and my feet, those two children let out to play naked.

Let there be seasons so that our tongues will be rich in asparagus and limes.

[I] have fantasies of killing myself and thus being the powerful one not the powerless one.

Oh sharp diamond, my mother! I could not count the cost of all your faces, your moods that present that I lost. Sweet girl, my deathbed, my jewel-fingered lady....