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Quotes from All My Pretty Ones — Anne Sexton

d. 1974

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5 quotes

Dearest,
although everything has happened,
nothing has happened.

All My Pretty Ones (1962)

In a dream you are never eighty.

All My Pretty Ones (1962)

Fact: death too is in the egg.
Fact: the body is dumb, the body is meat.
And tomorrow the O.R. Only the summer was sweet.

All My Pretty Ones (1962)

Need is not quite belief.

All My Pretty Ones (1962)

And what of the dead? They lie without shoes
in their stone boats. They are more like stone
than the sea would be if it stopped. They refuse
to be blessed, throat, eye and knucklebone.

All My Pretty Ones (1962)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Anne Sexton (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.