Oh, darling, let your body in, let it tie you in, in comfort.

About Anne Sexton

Portrait of Anne Sexton

Anne Sexton (born Anne Gray Harvey; November 9, 1928 – October 4, 1974) was an American poet known for her highly personal, confessional verse. She won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1967 for her book Live or Die. Her poetry often drew on her experiences with mental illness, including...

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I am not at home in myself. I am my own stranger.

Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.

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All we actually have is our body and its muscles that allow us to be under our own power.

—Allegra Kent

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The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular one and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.

—Iris Murdoch

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The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around.

—Thomas A. Edison

I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.

—Barbara Hepworth

The Soul is the voice of the body's interests.

—George Santayana

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