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Quotes from To Bedlam and Part Way Back — Anne Sexton

d. 1974

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I imitate
a memory of belief
that I do not own.

To Bedlam and Part Way Back (1960)

Even so, I must admire your skill.
You are so gracefully insane.

To Bedlam and Part Way Back (1960)

I rot on the wall, my own
Dorian Gray.

To Bedlam and Part Way Back (1960)

I have ridden in your cart, driver,
waved my nude arms at villages going by,
learning the last bright routes, survivor
where your flames still bite my thigh
and my ribs crack where your wheels wind.
A woman like that is not ashamed to die.
I have been her kind.

To Bedlam and Part Way Back (1960)

Attribution

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