Anne Sexton Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• I like you; your eyes are full of language." [Letter to Anne Clarke, July 3, 1964.]

  Anne Sexton

  I Like You, Eye, July

• Suicides have a special language. Like carpenters they want to know which tools. They never ask why build.

  Anne Sexton

  Suicide, Special, Tools

  "Wanting to Die" l. 7 (1966)

• But suicides have a special language. Like carpenters they want to know which tools. They never ask why build. Twice I have so simply declared myself, have possessed the enemy, eaten the enemy, have taken on his craft, his magic.

  Anne Sexton

  Suicide, Taken, Magic

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.98, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Be careful of words, / ... they can be both daisies and bruises.

  Anne Sexton

  Bruises, Language, Daisies

  Anne Sexton, “Words”

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