Anne Sexton Quotes About Kissing

Quotes about: Kissing

• you see, we live in a cold climate
  and are not permitted to kiss on the street
  so I made up a song that wasn't true.
  I made up a song called Marriage.

  Anne Sexton

  Marriage, Song, Kissing

  Anne Sexton (1999). “Love Poems”, p.6, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• There is rust in my mouth,the stain of an old kiss.

  Anne Sexton

  Kissing, Rust, Mouths

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

• And tonight our skin, our bones, that have survived our fathers, will meet, delicate in the hold, fastened together in an intricate lock. Then one of us will shout, "My need is more desperate!" and I will eat you slowly with kisses even though the killer in you has gotten out.

  Anne Sexton

  Father, Kissing, Skins

  Anne Sexton (1999). “Love Poems”, p.20, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• My mouth blooms like a cut.

  Anne Sexton

  Cutting, Kissing, Mouths

  Anne Sexton (1999). “Love Poems”, p.2, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• All the oxygen of the world was in them.
  All the feet of the babies of the world were in them.
  All the crotches of the angels of the world were in them.
  All the morning kisses of Philadelphia were in them.

  Anne Sexton

  Happiness, Baby, Morning

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

• Our checks are pale. Our wallets are invalids.
  Past due, past due, is what our bills are saying
  and yet we kiss in every corner, scuffing the dust
  and the cat. Love rises like bread as we go bust.

  Anne Sexton

  Cat, Kissing, Past

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

• I want to kiss God on His nose and watch Him sneeze
  and so do you.
  Not out of disrespect.
  Out of pique.
  Out of a man-to-man thing.

  Anne Sexton

  God, Jesus, Kissing

• 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”

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