Anne Sexton Quotes about Skins

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...became a woman who learned her own skin and dug into her soul and found it full.

...became a woman who learned her own skin and dug into her soul and found it full.

Anne Sexton

Soul, Skins, Found

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

Anne Sexton

Dark, Giving, Skins

Anne Sexton (2001). “Transformations”, p.38, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

And tonight our skin, our bones, that have survived our fathers, will meet, delicate in the hold, fastened together in an intricate lock. Then one of us will shout, "My need is more desperate!" and I will eat you slowly with kisses even though the killer in you has gotten out.

Anne Sexton

Father, Kissing, Skins

Anne Sexton (1999). “Love Poems”, p.20, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt