Anne Sexton Quotes
d. 1974
Anne Sexton (November 9, 1928 - October 4, 1974), born Anne Gray Harvey, was an American poet and writer. She won the Pulitzer Prize in poetry in 1967 for Live or Die.
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Dearest,
although everything has happened,
nothing has happened.
I imitate
a memory of belief
that I do not own.
We are all writing God's poem.
My eyes, those sluts, those whores, would play no more.
Why have your eyes gone into their own room?
The tongue, the Chinese say,
is like a sharp knife:
it kills
without drawing blood.
There is rust in my mouth,
the stain of an old kiss.
I am stuffing your mouth with your
promises and watching
you vomit them out upon my face.
Even so, I must admire your skill.
You are so gracefully insane.
It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.
I was spread out daily
and examined for flaws.
In a dream you are never eighty.
God is only mocked by believers.
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Anne Sexton (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.