Anne Sexton Quotes

Love your self's self where it lives.

Sometimes the soul takes pictures of things it has wished for, but never seen.

Each night I am nailed into placeand forget who I am.Daddy? That's another kind of prison.It's not the prince at all, but my fatherdrunkeningly bends over my bed, circling the abyss like a shark, my father thick upon melike some sleeping jellyfish.What voyage is this, little girl? This coming out of prison? God help -this life after death?

Fee-fi-fo-fum, now I'm borrowed, now I'm numb.

He turns the key.Presto!It opens this book of odd taleswhich transform the Brothers Grimm.Transform?As if an enlarged paper clipcould be a piece of sculpture.(And it could.)

Pain engraves a deeper memory.

Quite collected at cocktail parties,meanwhile in my headI'm undergoing open-heart surgery.

Clover['s] eyes are full of language.