- So this is happiness,
- that journeyman.
ANNE SEXTON, poem, Nov. 9, 1970
- Daylight is nobody's friend.
- God comes in like a landlord
- and flashes on his brassy lamp.
ANNE SEXTON, "You All Know the Story of the Other Woman"
Beauty is a simple passion,
but, oh my friends, in the end
you will dance the fire dance in iron shoes.
ANNE SEXTON, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
I am younger each year at the first snow. When I see it, suddenly, in the air, all little and white and moving; then I am in love again and very young and I believe everything.
ANNE SEXTON, letter to W. D. Snodgrass, November 28, 1958
I like you; your eyes are full of language.
ANNE SEXTON, letter to Anne Clarke, Jul. 3, 1964
I am stuffing your mouth with your
promises and watching
you vomit them out upon my face
ANNE SEXTON, "Killing the Love", 45 Mercy Street
America is a lady rocking on a porch in an unpainted house on an unused road.
ANNE SEXTON, "Sixth Psalm", The Complete Poems
Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.
ANNE SEXTON, attributed, The Words of Extraordinary Women
Briar Rose
was an insomniac...
She could not nap
or lie in sleep
without the court chemist
mixing her some knock-out drops
and never in the prince's presence.
ANNE SEXTON, Transformations
