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Anne Sexton foi uma escritora estadunidense conhecida por sua poesia confessional bastante pessoal. Ela venceu o Prémio Pulitzer de Poesia em 1967. Os temas de seus poemas incluem sua longa batalha contra a depressão, suas tendências suicidas e vários detalhes íntimos de sua vida privada, incluindo seu relacionamento com familiares. Após de várias tentativas, ela acabou tirando a própria vida em 1974. Wikipedia  

✵ 9. Novembro 1928 – 4. Outubro 1974  •  Outros nomes Anne Sextonová
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“Eu estou sozinho aqui em minha mente.
Não há mapa
e não há estrada.
Ela é uma e sozinha,
tal como a tua.”

Anne Sexton

“A língua, dizem os chineses, é como uma faca afiada: mata sem tirar sangue.”

Anne Sexton

The Awful Rowing Toward God (1975)

“Não importa quem foi meu pai; importa quem eu me lembro que ele foi.”

Anne Sexton

Revista Caras, Edição 665.

“Sua boca e seu ânus são um.”

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O Assassino

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“Atenta ao intelecto,
pois, por muito saber, nada sabe,
e deixa-te pendurado de cabeça para baixo,
a tagarelar saberes
enquanto da boca teu coração cai.”

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Anne Sexton: Frases em inglês

“Once I was beautiful. Now I am myself,
Counting this row and that row of moccasins
Waiting on the silent shelf.”

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“And we are magic talking to itself,
noisy and alone. I am queen of all my sins
forgotten. Am I still lost?
Once I was beautiful. Now I am myself”

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Fonte: To Bedlam and Part Way Back

“Writers are such phonies: they sometimes have wise insights but they don't live by them at all. That's what writers are like… you think they know something, but usually they are just messes.”

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Fonte: Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters

“Now I am going back
And I have ripped my hand
From your hand as I said I would
And I have made it this far…”

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“I’ll put it out there: I am scarred by the nostalgic indicipherability of my own desires; I an engulfed by the intimidating unknown, pushed through darkness and dragged down by the irretrievable past sweetness of my memories.”

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Fonte: Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters

“Talk to me about sadness. I talk about it too much in my own head but I never mind others talking about it either; I occasionally feel like I tremendously need others to talk about it as well.”

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Fonte: Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters

“I am crazy as hell, but I know it. And knowing it is a kind of sanity that makes the sickness worse.”

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Fonte: Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters

“The beautiful feeling after writing a poem is on the whole better even than after sex, and that's saying a lot.”

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“But suicides have a special language.
Like carpenters they want to know which tools.
They never ask why build.”

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Anne Sexton livro Live or Die

"Wanting to Die"
Live or Die (1966)

“And if I tried
to give you something else,
something outside myself,
you would not know
that the worst of anyone
can be, finally,
an accident of hope”

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Fonte: The Complete Poems

“Death,
I need my little addiction to you.
need that tiny voice who,
even as I rise from the sea,
all woman, all there,
says kill me, kill me.”

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"Letters to Dr. Y."
Words for Dr. Y (1978)

“But I can't. Need is not quite belief.”

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With Mercy for the Greedy
Variante: Need is not quite belief.
Fonte: All My Pretty Ones (1962)

“That’s what I do: I make coffee and occasionally succumb to suicidal nihilism. But you shouldn’t worry — poetry is still first. Cigarettes and alcohol follow”

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“Then all this became history.
Your hand found mine.
Life rushed to my fingers like a blood clot.
Oh, my carpenter,
the fingers are rebuilt.
They dance with yours.”

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“The future is a fog that is still hanging out over the sea, a boat that floats home or does not.”

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Fonte: Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters

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

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Fonte: Love Poems

“Give me your skin
as sheer as a cobweb,
let me open it up
and listen in and scoop out the dark.”

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Fonte: Transformations

“Don’t worry if they say you’re crazy. They said that about me and yet I was saner than all of them. I knew. No matter. You know. Insane or sane, you know. It’s a good thing to know - no matter what they call it.”

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