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Anne Sexton QUOTES

Anne Sexton QUOTES

61 " Sun, you hammer of yellow, 
you hat on fire, 
you honeysuckle mama, 
pour your blonde on me! 
Let me laugh for an entire hour 
at your supreme being, your Cadillac stuff, 
because I've come a long way 
from Brussels sprouts.  "

― Anne Sexton

62 " And there you are. And I liked you a lot today. A lot. And I want to talk to you. Selfishly. "

― Anne Sexton , No Evil Star: Selected Essays, Interviews, and Prose

63 " There is hope.
There is hope everywhere.
Today God gives milk
and I have the pail "

― Anne Sexton , The Awful Rowing Toward God

64 " Watch out for love
(unless it is true,
and every part of you says yes including the toes) ,
it will wrap you up like a mummy,
and your scream won't be heard
and none of your running will end.

Love? Be it man. Be it woman.
It must be a wave you want to glide in on,
give your body to it, give your laugh to it,
give, when the gravelly sand takes you,
your tears to the land. To love another is something
like prayer and can't be planned, you just fall
into its arms because your belief undoes your disbelief. "

― Anne Sexton

65 " KELİMELER

Kelimelere dikkat et,
Özellikle mucizevi olanlara.
Mucizevi olanlar için en iyisini yaparız,
Bazen böcek sürüsü gibi toplanırlar
Sokmazlar ama bir öpücük bırakırlar.
Parmaklar kadar iyi olabilirler.
Oturduğun kaya kadar güvenilir...
Aynı zamanda hem papatyalar hem de yaralar gibi...

Sözcüklere aşığım, evet.
Tavandan sarkan kuğular onlar,
Kucağımda duran altı kutsal portakal,
Ağaçlar onlar, yazın bacakları,
Ve güneş, onun tutkulu yüzü.

Genellikle yanılttılar beni.
Söylemek istediğim çok şey vardı,
Çok fazla hikaye, görüntü, atasözü ve saire...
Ama kelimeler yeterince iyi değil.
Yanlış olanları öptü beni.

Bazen bir kartal gibi uçarım
Ama bir çalıkuşunun kanatlarıyla.
Yine de dikkat etmeye çalışırım
Ve onlara nazik davranmaya.
Kelimeler ve yumurtalar dikkatle taşınmalıdır.
Bir kere kırıldılar mı, tamiri imkansızdır. "

― Anne Sexton

66 " …and she wore gowns as lovely as kisses… "

― Anne Sexton , The Complete Poems

67 " As for me, I am a watercolor.
I wash off. "

― Anne Sexton

68 " Even so, I must admire your skill.
You are so gracefully insane. "

― Anne Sexton

69 " I am alone here in my own mind.
There is no map
and there is no road.
It is one of a kind
just as yours is. "

― Anne Sexton

70 " Everyone in me is a bird
I am beating all my wings "

― Anne Sexton , Love Poems

71 " Love? Be it man. Be it woman.
It must be a wave you want to glide in on,
give your body to it, give your laugh to it,
give, when the gravelly sand takes you,
your tears to the land. To love another is something
like prayer and can't be planned, you just fall
into its arms because your belief undoes your disbelief. "

― Anne Sexton , The Complete Poems

72 " Perhaps I am no one.
True, I have a body
and I cannot escape from it.
I would like to fly out of my head,
but that is out of the question. "

― Anne Sexton

73 " All I wanted was a little piece of life, to be married, to have children. [...] I was trying my damnedest to lead a conventional life, for that was how I was brought up, and it was what my husband wanted of me. But one can't build little white picket fences to keep the nightmares out. "

― Anne Sexton

74 " I’m lost. And it’s my own fault. It’s about time I figured out that I can’t ask people to keep me found. "

― Anne Sexton

75 " The joy that isn't shared dies young. "

― Anne Sexton

76 " All day I've built
a lifetime and now
the sun sinks to
undo it. "

― Anne Sexton , The Complete Poems

77 " It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was. "

― Anne Sexton

78 " She is so naked and singular.
She is the sum of yourself and your dream.
Climb her like a monument, step after step.
She is solid. "

― Anne Sexton

79 " Don't bite till you know if it's bread or stone. "

― Anne Sexton , The Complete Poems

80 " Suicide is, after all, the opposite of the poem. "

― Anne Sexton