Anne Sexton Quotes About Skins

Quotes about: Skins

• ...became a woman who learned her own skin and dug into her soul and found it full.

  Anne Sexton

  Soul, Skins, Found

• 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 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

• Give me your skin as sheer as a cobweb, let me open it up and listen in and scoop out the dark.

  Anne Sexton

  Dark, Giving, Skins

  Anne Sexton (2001). “Transformations”, p.38, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• The future is a fog that is still hanging out over the sea, a boat that floats home or does not. The trade winds blow me, and I do not know where the land is; the waves fold over each other; they are in love with themselves; sleeping in their own skin; and I float over them and I do not know about tomorrow.

  Anne Sexton

  Future, Sleep, Home

  Anne Sexton, Linda Gray Sexton, Lois Ames (2004). “Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters”, p.41, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• My sleeping pill is white.
  It is a splendid pearl;
  it floats me out of myself,
  my stung skin as alien
  as a loose bolt of cloth.

  Anne Sexton

  Sleep, White, Skins

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.24, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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