Anne Sexton Quotes About House

Quotes about: House

• 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

• Those moments before a poem comes, when the heightened awareness comes over you, and you realize a poem is buried there somewhere, you prepare yourself. I run around, you know, kind of skipping around the house, marvelous elation. It’s as though I could fly.

  Anne Sexton

  Running, House, Over You

• And within the house
  ashes are being stuffed into my marriage,
  fury is lapping the walls,
  dishes crack on the shelves,
  a strangler needs my throat,
  the daughter has ceased to eat anything.

  Anne Sexton

  Daughter, Wall, Divorce

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

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

  Anne Sexton

  House, Mind, My Own

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.93, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• I who was a house full of bowel movement,
  I who was a defaced altar,
  I who wanted to crawl toward God
  could not move nor eat bread.

  Anne Sexton

  God, Moving, House

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

• I can only sign over everything,
  the house, the dog, the ladders, the jewels,
  the soul, the family tree, the mailbox.
  Then I can sleep.
  Maybe.

  Anne Sexton

  Dog, Sleep, Jewels

  Anne Sexton, “The Other”

• At six
  I lived in a graveyard full of dolls,
  avoiding myself,
  my body, the suspect
  in its grotesque house.

  Anne Sexton

  House, Childhood, Dolls

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