All ANNE SEXTON Quotes about “Heart”

“Watch out for intellect, because it knows so much it knows nothing and leaves you hanging upside down, mouthing knowledge as your heart falls out of your mouth.”
“Meanwhile in my head, Iâ€™m undergoing open-heart surgery.”
“The windows, the starving windows that drive the trees like nails into my heart.”
“Do you like me?â€ No answer. Silence bounced, fell off his tongue and sat between us and clogged my throat. It slaughtered my trust. It tore cigarettes out of my mouth. We exchanged blind words, and I did not cry, I did not beg, but blackness filled my ears, blackness lunged in my heart, and something that had been good, a sort of kindly oxygen, turned into a gas oven.”
“Some women marry houses. It's another kind of skin; it has a heart, a mouth, a liver and bowel movements.”
“... and my love stays bitterly glowing, spasms of it will not sleep, and I am helpless and thirsty and need shade but there is no one to cover me- not even God.”
“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.”
“It was as if a morning-glory had bloomed in her throat, and all that blue and small pollen ate into my heart, violent and religious”
“My heart is on a budget. It keeps me on the brink.”
“There is a good look that I wear like a blood clot. I have sewn it over my left breast. I have made a vocation of it.”
“Big heart, wide as a watermelon, but wise as birth, there is so much abundance in the people I have.”
“Images are the heart of poetry ... You're not a poet without imagery.”
“It is a dead heart. It is inside of me. It is a stranger yet once it was agreeable, opening and closing like a clam.”
“Maybe, although my heart is a kitten of butter, I am blowing it up like a zeppelin.”
“I will be steel! I will build a steel bridge over my need! I will build a bomb shelter over my heart! But my future is a secret. It is as shy as a mole.”
“When someone kisses someone or flushes the toilet it is my other who sits in a ball and cries. My other beats a tin drum in my heart. My other hangs up laundry as I try to sleep. My other cries and cries and cries when I put on a cocktail dress.”
“Images are probably the most important part of the poem. First of all you want to tell a story, but images are what are going to shore it up and get to the heart of the matter.”

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