Live or Die Quotes

“Death’s a sad bone; bruised, you’d say, and yet she waits for me, year after year, to so delicately undo an old wound,”
― Anne Sexton, Live or Die

“I have a room of my own.
Rain drops onto it. Rain drops down like worms
From the trees onto my frontal bone.
Haunted, always haunted by rain, the room affirms
The words that I will make alone.
— Mother And Jack and The Rain.”
― Anne Sexton, Live or Die

“So I won't hang around in my hospital shift,
repeating The Black Mass and all of it.
I say Live, Live because of the sun,
the dream, the excitable gift.”
― Anne Sexton, Live or Die

“They guess about the man who left me,
some pendulum soul, going the way men go
and leave you full of child.”
― Anne Sexton, Live or Die