Anne Sexton, Sweeney
“Lust is so inadequate. And loving exhausts me.”— Anne Sexton, A Self-Portrait In Letters (via wordsnquotes)
❝ Do not rely on February (…)
The sun in this month
begets a headache
like an angel slapping you in the face.
The sun in this month
begets a headache
like an angel slapping you in the face.
Anne Sexton, from The Complete Poems; “The Sermon of the Twelve Acknowledgements,”
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❝ I like you; your eyes are full of language.
Anne Sexton, Letter to Anne Clarke, July 3rd, 1964
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Anne Sexton - From Small Wire
❝ This November there seems to be nothing to say.
Anne Sexton - from a letter to Tillie Olsen featured in A Self-Portrait in Letters
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❝ The sea has undone me.
Anne Sexton, from a letter to Alfred Sexton featured in “A Self-Portrait in Letters,” (via violentwavesofemotion)