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Anne Sexton è stata una scrittrice e poetessa statunitense.

✵ 9. Novembre 1928 – 4. Ottobre 1974  •  Altri nomi Anne Sextonová
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Anne Sexton: 123 citazioni1 Mi piace

Anne Sexton frasi celebri

“Un bacio nell'incavo
del ginocchio è un fruscio
di falena alla zanzariera e
sì amore mio un puntino
luminoso sull'ecometro è
Campanellino con la tossetta
e due volte perderò l'onore
e le stelle saranno confitte
come puntine nella notte
sì oh sì sì sì due
chioccioline all'incavo
del ginocchio che accen-
dono falò simili a ci-
glia che sfregano sì sì sì
come pietrina d'accendino bic:
e così esisto!”

Anne Sexton

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“Come è stato detto:
Amore e tosse
non può essere nascosto
Anche un piccolo colpo di tosse.
Anche un piccolo amore.”

Anne Sexton

Anne Sexton: Frasi in inglese

“The grass as bristly and stout as chives and me wondering when the ground will break and me wondering how anything fragile survives”

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Anne Sexton

“Not that it was beautiful,
but that, in the end, there was
a certain sense of order there;
something worth learning
in that narrow diary of my mind”

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Anne Sexton

Origine: To Bedlam and Part Way Back

“I must always forget how one word is able to pick out another, to manner another, until I have got something I might have said… but did not.”

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Anne Sexton

Origine: The Complete Poems

“I am your dwarf.
I am the enemy within.
I am the boss of your dreams.
See. Your hand shakes.
It is not palsy or booze.
It is your Doppelganger
trying to get out.
Beware… Beware…”

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“Out of used furniture she made a tree.”

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Origine: The Complete Poems

“And what of the dead? They lie without shoes
in their stone boats. They are more like stone
than the sea would be if it stopped. They refuse
to be blessed, throat, eye and knucklebone.”

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"The Truth the Dead Know"
All My Pretty Ones (1962)

“I find now, swallowing one teaspoon
of pain, that it drops downward
to the past where it mixes
with last year’s cupful
and downward into a decade’s quart
and downward into a lifetime’s ocean.
I alternate treading water
and deadman’s float.”

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Origine: The Complete Poems

“The snow has quietness in it; no songs,
no smells, no shouts or traffic.
When I speak
my own voice shocks me.”

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Origine: All My Pretty Ones

“But suicides have a special language.
Like carpenters they want to know which tools.
They never ask why build.

Twice I have so simply declared myself,
have possessed the enemy, eaten the enemy,
have taken on his craft, his magic.”

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“Now I am just an elderly lady who is full of spleen,
who humps around greater Boston in a God-awful hat,
who never lived and yet outlived her time,
hating men and dogs and Democrats.”

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Anne Sexton

“How are you? How is your wonderful bathroom? How are the books you read and the things you think? Your dogs and their lives? The weather? Your feelings?”

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Origine: Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters

“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?”

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Anne Sexton

Origine: The Awful Rowing Toward God

“Quite collected at cocktail parties,
meanwhile in my head
I'm undergoing open-heart surgery.”

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Variante: Meanwhile in my head, I’m undergoing open-heart surgery.
Origine: Transformations

“Look to your heart
that flutters in and out like a moth.
God is not indifferent to your need.
You have a thousand prayers
but God has one.”

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“God went out of me
as if the sea dried up like sandpaper, as if the sun
became a latrine.
God went out of my fingers.
They became stone.
My body became a side of mutton
and despair roamed the slaughterhouse.”

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Origine: The Awful Rowing Toward God

“We talked death with burned-up intensity, both of us drawn to it like moths to an electric light bulb. Sucking on it!”

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Origine: Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters

“She married the prince
and all went well
except for the fear —
the fear of sleep.

Briar Rose
was an insomniac…
She could not nap
or lie in sleep
without the court chemist
mixing her some knock-out drops
and never in the prince's presence.”

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Origine: Transformations

“I rot on the wall, my own
Dorian Gray.”

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"The Double Image"
To Bedlam and Part Way Back (1960)

“Why have your eyes gone into their own room?”

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Anne Sexton libro Live or Die

"Your Face on the Dog's Neck"
Live or Die (1966)

“It would be pleasant to be drunk:
faithless to my tongue and hands,
giving up the boundaries
for the heroic gin.
Dead drunk is the term I think of,
insensible,
neither cool nor warm,
without a head or foot.
To be drunk is to be intimate with a fool.
I will try it shortly.”

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"Letter Written During a January Northeaster"
All My Pretty Ones (1962)

“A woman who writes feels too much,
those trances and portents!
As if cycles and children and islands
weren't enough; as if mourners and gossips
and vegetables were never enough.
She thinks she can warm the stars.
A writer is essentially a spy.
Dear love, I am that girl.”

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"The Black Art"
All My Pretty Ones (1962)

“I was spread out daily
and examined for flaws.”

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Anne Sexton libro Live or Die

"Those Times..."
Live or Die (1966)

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