Anne Sexton Quotes - Page 14

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• I was spread out dailyand examined for flaws.

  Anne Sexton

  Flaws, Spread

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• Our children tremble in their teen-age cribs,
  whirling off on a thumb or a motorcycle.

  Anne Sexton

  Children, Maturity, Motorcycle

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

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• I tied down time with a rope
  but it came back.
  Then
  I put my head in a death bowl
  and my eyes shut up like clams.
  They didn't come back.

  Anne Sexton

  Time, Eye, Rope

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• Poets are sitting in my kitchen.
  Why do these poets lie?
  Why do children get children and
  Did you hear what it said?

  Anne Sexton

  Children, Lying, Poetry

  Anne Sexton, “Portrait Of An Old Woman On The College Tavern Wall”

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• being sixteen in the pants I died full of questions

  Anne Sexton

  Sixteen, Pants, Died

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• For forty days, for forty nights
  Jesus put one foot in front of the other
  and the man he carried,
  if it was a man,
  became heavier and heavier.

  Anne Sexton

  God, Jesus, Night

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• it
  was my first doll that water went
  into and water came out of much
  earlier it was the diaper I wore
  and the dirt thereof and my
  mother hating me for it

  Anne Sexton

  Mother, Hate, Water

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