Quotes by : Anne Sexton

I am stuffing your mouth with yourpromises and watching you vomit them out upon my face.

The grass as bristly and stout as chives and me wondering when the ground will break and me wondering....

The rest of my room is book shelves. I hoard books. They are people who do not leave.

He turns the key.Presto!It opens this book of odd taleswhich transform the Brothers Grimm.Transform?As....

No. Not really red,but the color of a rose when it bleeds.

Live or die, but don't poison everything...Well, death's been herefor a long time --it has a hell of....

Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.

Fee-fi-fo-fum -Now I'm borrowed.Now I'm numb.

As it has been said:Love and a coughcannot be concealed.Even a small cough.Even a small love.

I’d won the worldbut like aforsaken explorer,I’d lostmy map.