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“I have gone out, a possessed witch, haunting the black air, braver at night; dreaming evil, I have done my hitch over the plain houses, light by light: lonely thing, twelve-fingered, out of mind. A woman like that is not a woman, quite. I have been her kind.”
― The Complete Poems
― The Complete Poems
“سوف أرحل الآن
دون شيخوخة أو مرض،
بعنف ولكن بطريقة صحيحة تماماً
وأنا أعلم أفضل طريق سأسلك
ـ آن سكستون”
― اخرج في موعد مع فتاة تحب الكتابة
دون شيخوخة أو مرض،
بعنف ولكن بطريقة صحيحة تماماً
وأنا أعلم أفضل طريق سأسلك
ـ آن سكستون”
― اخرج في موعد مع فتاة تحب الكتابة
“…madness is not hysteria. It can be very quiet…”
― Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters
― Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters
“From the Garden”
Come, my beloved,
consider the lilies.
We are of little faith.
We talk too much.
Put your mouthful of words away
and come with me to watch
the lilies open in such a field,
growing there like yachts,
slowly steering their petals
without nurses or clocks.
Let us consider the view:
a house where white clouds
decorate the muddy halls.
Oh, put away your good words
and your bad words. Spit out
your words like stones!
Come here! Come here!
Come eat my pleasant fruits.”
― The Complete Poems
Come, my beloved,
consider the lilies.
We are of little faith.
We talk too much.
Put your mouthful of words away
and come with me to watch
the lilies open in such a field,
growing there like yachts,
slowly steering their petals
without nurses or clocks.
Let us consider the view:
a house where white clouds
decorate the muddy halls.
Oh, put away your good words
and your bad words. Spit out
your words like stones!
Come here! Come here!
Come eat my pleasant fruits.”
― The Complete Poems
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