Anne Sexton Quotes

I have ridden in your cart, driver,waved my nude arms at villages going by,learning the last bright routes, survivorwhere your flames still bite my thighand my ribs crack where your wheels wind.A woman like that is not ashamed to die.I have been her kind.

Anne Sexton

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• I've never seen anyone die. It's hard to imagine what it would be like.

  

  Jack Gleeson
  • Die
  • Never
  • Seen

• For thousands of years, we did have death surrounding us, and we did have people die in the home. You would take care of your own end. You would do ritual processes, and you would be involved in it, and that's been taken away in the Western world.

  

  Caitlin Doughty
  • People
  • World
  • Home

• When I was 12 years old, I got interested in learning English.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Learning
  • English
  • Years

• Almost anything worth doing involves some measure of risk - from learning to ride a bike, moving to a new city, and certainly, starting your own business. The point is that no one has ever started a business or created a new product with a guarantee of success.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • Business
  • Success
  • City

• There are two of my favorite books, 'The Great Gatsby' and 'Gone With The Wind', that were made into movies. And I love those movies as much as I love the books. That's really rare.

  

  Tatiana de Rosnay
  • Great
  • Love
  • Wind

• Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Learning

• The young are adept at learning, but even more adept at avoiding it.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Learning
  • Young
  • More

• The record business is dangerous to the health of bands and individuals, which is something I'm just now learning. But it's not dangerous in any of the ways people think; it's not that they try to make you compromise your art. That's not the problem.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • People
  • Art
  • Business

• Arab civilizations had been of an abstract nature, moral and intellectual rather than applied; and their lack of public spirit made their excellent private qualities futile. They were fortunate in their epoch: Europe had fallen barbarous; and the memory of Greek and Latin learning was fading from men's minds.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • Men
  • Nature
  • Learning

• So in my freshman year at the University of Alabama, learning the literature on evolution, what was known about it biologically, just gradually transformed me by taking me out of literalism and increasingly into a more secular, scientific view of the world.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • World
  • Learning
  • Literature

• You have to grow thick skin and that only comes with time and learning.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Time
  • Learning
  • Grow

• I love figuring out a stranger, sitting down and learning about their loves and struggles and everything. People are my jam.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • People
  • Love
  • Learning

• I always wanted to be a writer. In the beginning, I thought I had to rewrite 'Gone with the Wind,' but eventually, I found my way and realized that wasn't me.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Beginning
  • Thought
  • Wind

• It's like saying French shouldn't be taught because you don't understand it because it's new. Shakespeare is just like learning a new, exciting language.

  

  Samuel Barnett
  • Learning
  • Language
  • Saying

• Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.

  

  Abigail Adams
  • Education
  • Learning
  • Chance

• Mastering music is more than learning technical skills. Practicing is about quality, not quantity. Some days I practice for hours; other days it will be just a few minutes.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Music
  • Learning
  • Quality

• To retire is to begin to die.

  

  Pablo Casals
  • Die
  • Begin
  • Retire

• If you desire ease, forsake learning.

  

  Nagarjuna
  • You
  • Desire
  • Learning

• Learn computer science. It's extraordinarily helpful. I like recommending learning economics as well so they think in terms of business, they have rational frameworks for looking at the world, but yeah, computer science is an amazing way to get into, even if you want to be CEO, having a tech background is helpful.

  

  Fabrice Grinda
  • World
  • Business
  • Science

• True, a little learning is a dangerous thing, but it still beats total ignorance.

  

  Pauline Phillips
  • True
  • Learning
  • Ignorance

• If this ever changing world in which we live in makes you give in and cry, say live and let die.

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • World
  • Live
  • Giving

• I'll tell everyone that the children are my reason for living, when in reality my life is their reason for living.

  

  Paulo Coelho
  • Life
  • Children
  • Reality

• That's why I don't understand why actors become arrogant and are completely unapproachable - because as an actor, the most valuable thing you can do is talk to people and hear their stories, because it'll all come in handy.

  

  Daniel Radcliffe
  • People
  • Why

• I have ridden in your cart, driver,waved my nude arms at villages going by,learning the last bright routes, survivorwhere your flames still bite my thighand my ribs crack where your wheels wind.A woman like that is not ashamed to die.I have been her kind.

  

  Anne Sexton
  • Die
  • Learning
  • Wind