Anne, I don't want to live. Now listen, life is lovely, but I Can't Live It. I can't even explain. I know how silly it sounds. but if you knew how it Felt. To be alive, yes, alive, but not be able to live it. Ay that's the rub. I am like a stone that lives. . locked outside of all that's real. Anne, do you know of such things, can you hear???? I wish, or think I wish, that I were dying of something for then I could be brave, but to be not dying, and yet. and yet to [be] behind a wall, watching everyone fit in where I can't, to talk behind a gray foggy wall, to live but to not reach or to reach wrong. . to do it all wrong. believe me, (can you?). what's wrong. I want to belong. I'm like a jew who ends up in the wrong country. I'm not a part. I'm not a member. I'm frozen. Anne Sexton
About This Quote

In the poem “Anne,” by Alfred Lord Tennyson, he describes a man whose life is a failure. He describes how he cannot join in the life of his fellow man because something is preventing him from living. He says that he is like a stone that lives locked outside of all that is real. He feels as though his life is a failure and that he will never be able to reach any goals because he is not a part of anything.

Source: Anne Sexton: A Selfportrait In Letters

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