240"You are so gracefully insane." - Anne Sexton, from The Complete Poems
488"I’m the crazy one who thinks that words reach people." - Anne Sexton, from A Self-Portrait In Letters
983"Talk to me about sadness. I talk about it too much in my own head but I never mind others talking about it either; I occasionally feel like I tremendously need others to talk about it as well." - Anne Sexton, from A Self-Portrait In Letters
458"I’m in pain because the day is ending and somehow I am never healing." - Anne Sexton, from A Self-Portrait In Letters
248"The soul was not
cured;
It was as full
as a clothes closet
of dresses
that did not
fit." - Anne Sexton, from The Complete Poems
cured;
It was as full
as a clothes closet
of dresses
that did not
fit." - Anne Sexton, from The Complete Poems
197"Her body carries clouds all the way home." - Anne Sexton, from It Is A Spring Afternoon
216"Our hands
that stroke each other
Our fingers
naked as petals
And the world —
pulses on a swing." - Anne Sexton, from The Fierceness Of Female
that stroke each other
Our fingers
naked as petals
And the world —
pulses on a swing." - Anne Sexton, from The Fierceness Of Female
1678"That’s what I do: I make coffee and occasionally succumb to suicidal nihilism. But you shouldn’t worry — poetry is still first. Cigarettes and alcohol follow." - Anne Sexton, from A Self-Portrait In Letters
52"Oh, darling, let your body in, let it tie you in, in comfort." - Anne Sexton, from The Complete Poems
186"You are a glass that I have paid to shatter and I swallow the pieces down with my spit." - Anne Sexton, from Buying The Whore
781"I’d won the world
but like a
forsaken explorer,
I’d lost
my map." - Anne Sexton, from “The Fury of God’s Goodbye” (via inherwar)
but like a
forsaken explorer,
I’d lost
my map." - Anne Sexton, from “The Fury of God’s Goodbye” (via inherwar)
(Source: weissewiese, via inherwar)
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