Anne Sexton: Zitate auf Englisch
“It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.”
"The Poet's Story," January 1, 1972 entry
A Small Journal (1974)
“I am a collection of dismantled almosts.”
Quelle: Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters
“As for me, I am a watercolor.
I wash off.”
"For My Lover, Returning to His Wife"
Love Poems (1969)
“All day I've built
a lifetime and now
the sun sinks to
undo it.”
Quelle: The Complete Poems
“Don't bite till you know if it's bread or stone.”
Quelle: Complete Poems
“O starry night, This is how I want to die”
Quelle: The Complete Poems
“I am stuffing your mouth with your
promises and watching
you vomit them out upon my face.”
"Killing the Love"
45 Mercy Street (1976)
Quelle: The Complete Poems
“Even so, I must admire your skill.
You are so gracefully insane.”
"Elegy in the Classroom"
Referring to Robert Lowell
To Bedlam and Part Way Back (1960)
Variante: Even so, I must admire your skill.
You are so gracefully insane.
