Anne Sexton Quotes About Heart

Quotes about: Heart

• Watch out for intellect, because it knows so much it knows nothing and leaves you hanging upside down, mouthing knowledge as your heart falls out of your mouth.

  Anne Sexton

  Love, Fall, Heart

  Anne Sexton, “Admonitions To A Special Person”

• Meanwhile in my head, I’m undergoing open-heart surgery.

  Anne Sexton

  Heart, Open Heart, Surgery

  Anne Sexton (2001). “Transformations”, p.75, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Maybe, although my heart
  is a kitten of butter,
  I am blowing it up like a zeppelin.

  Anne Sexton

  Heart, Zeppelins, Blowing It

  Anne Sexton (1975). “The Awful Rowing Toward God”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

• The windows, the starving windows that drive the trees like nails into my heart.

  Anne Sexton

  Heart, Tree, Nails

  Anne Sexton (1975). “The Awful Rowing Toward God”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

• Do you like me?” No answer. Silence bounced, fell off his tongue and sat between us and clogged my throat. It slaughtered my trust. It tore cigarettes out of my mouth. We exchanged blind words, and I did not cry, I did not beg, but blackness filled my ears, blackness lunged in my heart, and something that had been good, a sort of kindly oxygen, turned into a gas oven.

  Anne Sexton

  Heart, Oxygen, Silence

• Big heart,
  wide as a watermelon,
  but wise as birth,
  there is so much abundance
  in the people I have.

  Anne Sexton

  Wise, Heart, People

  Anne Sexton (1975). “The Awful Rowing Toward God”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

• Some women marry houses. It's another kind of skin; it has a heart, a mouth, a liver and bowel movements.

  Anne Sexton

  Marriage, Wedding, Heart

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.64, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• ... and my love stays bitterly glowing, spasms of it will not sleep, and I am helpless and thirsty and need shade but there is no one to cover me- not even God.

  Anne Sexton

  Broken Heart, Sleep, Glowing

  Anne Sexton (1976). “45 Mercy Street”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

• I love you. You are closest to my heart, closer than any other human being. You are my extension. You are my prayer. You are my belief in God. For better or worse you inherit me.

  Anne Sexton

  Love, Prayer, Heart

  Anne Sexton, Linda Gray Sexton, Lois Ames (2004). “Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters”, p.342, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Look to your heart that flutters in and out like a moth. God is not indifferent to your need. You have a thousand prayers but God has one.

  Anne Sexton

  Prayer, Heart, Needs

• It was as if a morning-glory had bloomed in her throat, and all that blue and small pollen ate into my heart, violent and religious

  Anne Sexton

  Religious, Morning, Heart

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.211, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• My heart is on a budget.
  It keeps me on the brink.

  Anne Sexton

  Heart, My Heart, Budgets

  Anne Sexton (1978). “Words for Dr. Y.: uncollected poems with three stories”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

• I brush my hair,
  waiting in the pain machine for my bones to get hard,
  for the soft, soft bones that were laid apart
  and were screwed together. They will knit.
  And the other corpse, the fractured heart,
  I feed it piecemeal, little chalice. I'm good to it.

  Anne Sexton

  Pain, Heart, Hair

  Anne Sexton (1999). “Love Poems”, p.25, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• There is a good look that I wear
  like a blood clot. I have
  sewn it over my left breast.
  I have made a vocation of it.

  Anne Sexton

  Heart, Blood, Looks

  Anne Sexton, “Again And Again And Again”

• Images are the heart of poetry ... You're not a poet without imagery.

  Anne Sexton

  Heart, Poet, Imagery

• the heart,
  this child of myself that resides in the flesh,
  this ultimate signature of the me, the start
  of my blindness and sleep, builds a death crèche.

  Anne Sexton

  Children, Heart, Sleep

  Anne Sexton (1999). “Love Poems”, p.25, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Take adultery or theft.
  Merely sins.
  It is evil who dines on the soul,
  stretching out its long bone tongue.
  It is evil who tweezers my heart,
  picking out its atomic worms.

  Anne Sexton

  Heart, Long, Evil

  Anne Sexton (1978). “Words for Dr. Y.: uncollected poems with three stories”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

• It is a dead heart.
  It is inside of me.
  It is a stranger
  yet once it was agreeable,
  opening and closing like a clam.

  Anne Sexton

  Heart, Stranger, Clams

  Anne Sexton (1975). “The Awful Rowing Toward God”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

• There is an animal inside me,
  clutching fast to my heart,
  a huge crab.

  Anne Sexton

  Heart, Animal, Crabs

  Anne Sexton (1975). “The Awful Rowing Toward God”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

• I will be steel!
  I will build a steel bridge over my need!
  I will build a bomb shelter over my heart!
  But my future is a secret.
  It is as shy as a mole.

  Anne Sexton

  Strength, Heart, Bridges

  Anne Sexton (1978). “Words for Dr. Y.: uncollected poems with three stories”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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

  Anne Sexton

  Lying, Heart, Dwarves

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.50, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• When someone kisses someone or flushes the toilet
  it is my other who sits in a ball and cries.
  My other beats a tin drum in my heart.
  My other hangs up laundry as I try to sleep.
  My other cries and cries and cries
  when I put on a cocktail dress.

  Anne Sexton

  Sleep, Heart, Kissing

  Anne Sexton, “The Other”

• Images are probably the most important part of the poem. First of all you want to tell a story, but images are what are going to shore it up and get to the heart of the matter.

  Anne Sexton

  Heart, Important, Stories

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