Anne Sexton Quotes About House
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At six I lived in a graveyard full of dolls, avoiding myself, my body, the suspect in its grotesque house.
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I am in my own mind. I am locked in the wrong house.
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Those moments before a poem comes, when the heightened awareness comes over you, and you realize a poem is buried there somewhere, you prepare yourself. I run around, you know, kind of skipping around the house, marvelous elation. It’s as though I could fly.
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And within the house ashes are being stuffed into my marriage, fury is lapping the walls, dishes crack on the shelves, a strangler needs my throat, the daughter has ceased to eat anything.
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I who was a house full of bowel movement, I who was a defaced altar, I who wanted to crawl toward God could not move nor eat bread.
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I can only sign over everything, the house, the dog, the ladders, the jewels, the soul, the family tree, the mailbox. Then I can sleep. Maybe.
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Some women marry houses. It's another kind of skin; it has a heart, a mouth, a liver and bowel movements.
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