The little girl skipped by under the wrinkled oak leaves and held fast to a replica of herself. Anne Sexton More Quotes by Anne Sexton More Quotes From Anne Sexton The sanest thing in this world is love. Anne Sexton positive-thinking world thinking A woman / who loves a woman / is forever young. Anne Sexton forever-young sexuality forever Why are all these dolls falling out of the sky? Anne Sexton cutting father fall Be careful of words, / ... they can be both daisies and bruises. Anne Sexton bruises daisies language I am stuffing your mouth with your promises and watching you vomit them out upon my face. Anne Sexton truth mouths promise One can't build little white picket fences to keep nightmares out. Anne Sexton nightmare white littles I am younger each year at the first snow. Anne Sexton snow years firsts Don't bite till you know if it's bread or stone. Anne Sexton bites bread stones You must be a poet, Anne Sexton luck poetry evil ... a starving man doesn't ask what the meal is. Anne Sexton hunger meals men The future is a fog that is still hanging out over the sea, a boat that floats home or does not. Anne Sexton fog sea home Maybe I am becoming a hermit, opening the door for only a few special animals? Maybe my skull is too crowded and it has no opening through which to feed it soup? Anne Sexton skulls doors animal The beautiful feeling after writing a poem is on the whole better even than after sex, and that's saying a lot. Anne Sexton writing beautiful sex I am so imperfect, can you love me when really my soul is deformed? Will you love me anyhow? Anne Sexton imperfect my-soul soul Even so, I must admire your skill. You are so gracefully insane. Anne Sexton admire insane skills The boys and girls are one tonight. They unbutton blouses. They unzip flies. They take off shoes. They turn off the light. The glimmering creatures are full of lies. They are eating each other. They are overfed. At night, alone, I marry the bed. Anne Sexton girl boys lying Psychiatry is a dirty mirror. Anne Sexton psychiatry mirrors dirty To love another is somethinglike prayer and it can't be planned, you just fallinto its arms because your belief undoes your disbelief. Anne Sexton arms belief prayer The silence is death. Anne Sexton eye white bird Daisies in water are the longest lasting Anne Sexton flower giving water
