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✵ 9. listopad 1928 – 4. říjen 1974   •   Další jména Anne Sextonová
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“The tongue, the Chinese say,
is like a sharp knife:
it kills
without drawing blood.”

"The Dead Heart"
The Awful Rowing Toward God (1975)

“There is rust in my mouth,
the stain of an old kiss.”

"The Lost Lie" from The Divorce Papers
45 Mercy Street (1976)

“Dearest,
although everything has happened,
nothing has happened.”

"Letter Written on a Ferry While Crossing Long Island Sound"
All My Pretty Ones (1962)

“I am alive when your fingers are.”

"The Breast"
Love Poems (1969)

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

"The Division of Parts"
To Bedlam and Part Way Back (1960)

“Catch me. I'm your disease.”

"Eighteen Days Without You": December 18th
Love Poems (1969)

“I grow old on my bitterness.”

Anne Sexton kniha Live or Die

"Two Sons"
Live or Die (1966)

“To love another is something
like prayer and it can't be planned, you just fall
into its arms because your belief undoes your disbelief.”

"Admonitions to a Special Person" (1974) from Last Poems frameless QOTD 2007·11·09 Sound file
Poems 1971-1973 (1981)

“Here in the hospital, I say,
that is not my body, not my body.
I am not here for the doctors
to read like a recipe.”

"August 17th" from Scorpio, Bad Spider, Die: The Horoscope Poems
Words for Dr. Y (1978)

“Blue eyes wash off sometimes.”

"Letters to Dr. Y."
Words for Dr. Y (1978)

“God is only mocked by believers.”

"Letters to Dr. Y."
Words for Dr. Y (1978)

“In a dream you are never eighty.”

"Old"
All My Pretty Ones (1962)

“We are all writing God's poem.”

As quoted by Erica Jong, in "Into the lion's den" in The Guardian (26 October 2000) http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2000/oct/26/features11.g2

“Love! That red disease”

Anne Sexton kniha Live or Die

"Menstruation at Forty"
Live or Die (1966)

“All who love have lied.”

"The Operation"
All My Pretty Ones (1962)

“My eyes, those sluts, those whores, would play no more.”

Anne Sexton kniha The Book of Folly

"Killing the Spring"
The Book of Folly (1972)