Love Poems Quotes

“Everyone in me is a bird
I am beating all my wings”
― Anne Sexton, Love Poems

“Being kissed on the back
of the knee is a moth
at the windowscreen....”
― Anne Sexton, Love Poems

“And tonight our skin, our bones,
that have survived our fathers,
will meet, delicate in the hold,
fastened together in an intricate lock.
Then one of us will shout,
"My need is more desperate!" and
I will eat you slowly with kisses
even though the killer in you
has gotten out.”
― Anne Sexton, Love Poems

“Yesterday I did not want to be borrowed but this is the typewriter that sits before me and love is where yesterday is at.”
― Anne Sexton, Love Poems

“My mouth blooms like a cut.
I've been wronged all year, tedious
nights, nothing but rough elbows in them
and delicate boxes of Kleenex calling crybaby
crybaby, you fool!

Before today my body was useless.
Now it's tearing at its square corners.
It's tearing old Mary's garments off, knot by knot
and see - Now it's shot full of these electric bolts.
Zing! A resurrection!

Once it was a boat, quite wooden
and with no business, no salt water under it
and in need of some paint. It was no more
than a group of boards. But you hoisted her, rigged her.
She's been elected.

My nerves are turned on. I hear them like
musical instruments. Where there was silence
the drums, the strings are incurably playing. You did this.
Pure genius at work. Darling, the composer has stepped
into fire.”
― Anne Sexton, Love Poems

“Alone in our place I was a guest.”
― Anne Sexton, Love Poems

“Darling, the composer has stepped into fire.”
― Anne Sexton, Love Poems

“The butterfly owns her now.
It covers her and her wounds.”
― Anne Sexton, Love Poems

“My bones are loose as clothespins,
as abandoned as dolls in a toy shop
and my heart, old hunger motor, with its sins
revved up like an engine that would not stop.”
― Anne Sexton, Love Poems

“Everyone in me is a bird.
I am beating my wings.
They wanted to cut you out
but they will not.
They said you were immeasurably empty
bu you are not.
They said you were sick unto dying
but they were wrong.
You are winging like a school girl.
You are not torn.”
― Anne Sexton, Love Poems

“It was also my violent heart that broke,
falling down the front hall stairs.
It was also a message I never spoke,
calling, riser after riser, who cares...”
― Anne Sexton, Love Poems

“Your hands found me like an architect.”
― Anne Sexton, Love Poems

“As for me, I am a watercolor.
I wash off.”
― Anne Sexton, Love Poems

“I wear silk — the cover to uncover —
because silk is what I want you to think of. But I dislike the cloth. It is too stern”
― Anne Sexton, Love Poems

“Today is the day they shipped
home our summer in two crates
and tonight is All Hallows Eve
and today you tell me the oak leaves
outside your office window will
outlast the New England winter.
But then, love is where our summer
was.”
― Anne Sexton, Love Poems