Quotes By Anne Sexton BACK
- Watch out for intellect,because
- As it has been said:
- stop the darkness and its
- We are all writing God'
- When I'm writing, I
- The trouble with therapy is
- The future is a fog
- When I lie down to
- Even so, I must admire
- Today life opened inside me
- I said, the poets are
- Then all this became history.
- And what of the dead?
- The snow has quietness in
- It's all a matter
- Here in the hospital, I
- In a letter (no matter
- The town is silent. The
- They [daisies] are my favorite
- Fee fi fo fum Now
- You cutting the lawn, fixing
- Once upon a time we
- All in all, I'd
- Not that it was beautiful,
- Thief! how did you crawl
- Let there be a heaven
- God has a brown voice,
- With this pen I take
- Suicide is, after all, the
- Abundance is scooped from abundance
- Well, one gets out of
- Put your mouthful of words
- Someone is dead.Even the
- Need is not quite belief.
- I imitatea memory of beliefthat
- I am not lazy.I
- All I am is the
- And tonight our skin, our
- And the aura of you
- Fear / a motor, / pumps me
- I like you; your eyes
- God went out of me
- It is a dead heart.
- Our children tremble in their
- I am a collection of
- Emerald as heavy as a
- But my future is a
- You who have inhabited me
- Now I am just an
- Psychiatry is a dirty mirror.
- And within the houseashes are
- There is an animal inside
- The man inside of woman
- I am crazy as hell,
- I tell you what youll
- The tongue, the Chinese say,
- The joy that isn't
- What's the point of
- I think of myself as
- Only my books anoint me,
- To be without God is
- Writers are such phonies: they
- It was as if a
- A starving man doesnt ask
- Death's in the good
- Manis a bird full of
- I wasthe girl of the
- When the cow gives bloodand
- women are born twice.
- I sit at my deskeach
- Daylight is nobody's friend.
- Somebody who should have been
- I would like to think
- unless I can shake myself
- I grow old on my
- Everyone has left meexcept my
- Of coursethe New Testament is
- Jewels! Today each twig is
- I would like a simple
- Earth, earthriding your merry go
- I hoard books. They are
- My objects dream and wear
- I cannot walk an inch /
- Take a woman talking,purging
- The Saints come,as human
- Images are probably the most
- It's a little mad,
- All day I've built
- Sometimes I fly like an
- Let there be seasons so
- I am torn in twobut
- The summer has seized you,
- My mouth blooms like a
- Pulling off the fat diamond
- Today is made of yesterday,
- I leave you, home,when
- The silence is death.It
- I tell it stories now
- My eyes, those sluts, those
- O starry night, This is
- And thus Snow White became
- To tell the truthdays are
- At sixI lived in a
- I am teaching... This year
- Jesus saw the multitudes were
- I who was a house
- Bless all useful objects,the
- Big heart,wide as a
- The windows, the starving windows
- I want to kiss God
- All considerationsfor these human remains!
- Death, I need my little
- I try to take careand
- The Witch's Life" When
- If you meet a cross
- the heart,this child of
- I am your dwarf. I
- I raise my pelvis to
- I would sell my life
- Let God be some tribal
- I remember the stink of
- Maybe, although my heartis a
- I can only sign over
- There is joyin all:in
- But even in a telephone
- Maybe I am becoming a
- I am not at home
- Letters are false really they
- Frog has no nerves.Frog
- In a dream you are
- I rot on the wall,
- Give me your skin as
- Love? Be it man. Be
- Put your ear down close
- Our eyes are full of
- I've grown tired of
- Poetry is my life, my
- The beautiful feeling after writing
- There is a good look
- Poets are sitting in my
- think of innocent Icarus who
- Those moments before a poem
- Blind with love, my daughterhas
- Talk to me about sadness.
- The little girl skipped by
- Despite my asbestos gloves,the
- I'm the crazy one
- Do you like me? No
- Daisies in water are the
- Take adultery or theft.Merely
- This is what poems are:
- It would be pleasant to
- Mood can be as important
- The day of fire is
- As a writer one has
- Depression is boring, I think
- I have a black look
- God went out of meas
- I suffer for birds and
- I am tearing the feathers
- The family story tells, and
- The body is a damn
- Perhaps I am no one.
- Oh sharp diamond, my mother!
- Please God, we're all
- For forty days, for forty
- Cinderella and the princelived, they
- i have fantasies of killing
- She is so naked and
- It is June. I am
- I think I've been
- Being kissed on the back
- I was spread out dailyand
- Ill put it out there:
- When someone kisses someone or
- In an old timethere was
- Oh, darling, let your body
- It is in the small
- I have forgiven all the
- I must always forget how
- I brush my hair,waiting
- Watch out for intellect, because
- No one to hate except
- this is no dreamjust my
- I lay there silently, hoarding
- There once was a miller
- Yet love enters my blood
- She suffers according to the
- I did not know the
- Yesterday I did not want
- One can't build little
- Then God spoke to me
- No matter whose bed you
- We are America.We are
- I find now, swallowing one
- To love another is somethinglike
- The sea is mother death
- Dont worry if they say
- After a disaster strikes, it
- I tied down time with
- Nature is full of teeththat
- Some women marry houses. It'
- Now that I have written
- Suicides have a special language.
- O yellow eye,let me
- My death from the wrists,
- Evil is maybe lying to
- My ideas are a curse.
- I'm an empress.I
- I'llVacuum up my stale
- Inside many of usis a
- Today God gives milk / and
- The ground has on its
- Our checks are pale. Our
- Poems aren't postcards to
- Home is my Bethlehem,my
- Craft is a trick you
- The sky breaks.It sags
- One of my secret instructions
- I am out of practice
- Yes, I know.Death sits
- life is a trick, life
- I think it will be
- My safe, safe psychosis is
- Women tell time by the
- So I won't hang
- But suicides have a special
- The fish are naked.The
- Once I was a couple.
- I put the gold star
- itwas my first doll that
- I, in my brand new
- The future is a fog
- I will be steel!I
- As it has been said:
- And my love stays bitterly
- What's missing is the
- The soul was not cured,
- A woman / who loves a
- Im lost. And its my
- True. There isa beautiful Jesus.
- All who love have lied.
- Meanwhile in my head, Im
- Saints have no moderation, nor
- the marriage twists, holds firm,
- I am younger each year
- My heart is on a
- The grass as bristly and
- Now I am going back
- Everyone in me is a
- I would like to buryall
- Though rain curses the window
- Father,you died once,salted
- Rejoice with the day lily
- Loving me with my shoes
- If the doctors curethen the
- we do not explain my
- O fallen angel,the companion
- bike downtown, stick out tongues
- Rocks crumble, make new forms,
- I burn the way money
- And if I tried to
- There is no word for
- I keep feeling that there
- To die whole,riddled with
- sorrow is easier than guilt.
- My business is words. Words
- Watch out for love(unless
- All I wanted was a
- Once I was beautiful. Now
- It doesn't matter who
- I love the word warm.
- I have been cut in
- Don't bite till you
- Even without wars, life is
- There is rust in my
- Rats live on no evil
- I am alone here in
- All the oxygen of the
- God owns heaven but He
- Come, my pretender, my fritter,
- Became a woman who learned
- I see myself as one
- Blue eyes wash off sometimes.
- You lay, a small knuckle
- Look to your heart that
- Dead drunkis the term I
- I'm hunting for the
- My faithis a great weighthung
- There is hope.There is
- For I could not read
- I am younger each year
- Sometimes the soul takes pictures
- Somebody who should have been
- The sanest thing in this
- Every time I get happythe
- I was only sitting here
- you see, we live in
- The boys and girls are
- My husband sings Baa Baa
- I love you. You are
- As for me, I am
- Poor thing.To die and
- Take your foot out of
- Poetry to me is prayer.
- being sixteen in the pants
- The place I live in
- Thumbs grow into my throat.
- Suddenly I'm not half
- I am in my own
- Not that it was beautiful,
- God is only mocked by
- I am stuffing your mouth
- Love your self's self
- You must be a poet,
- Why are all these dolls
- I am so imperfect, can
- Oh thumb,I want a
- My sleeping pill is white.
- A woman who writes feels
- Man is eating the earth
- I wonder if the artist
- The stars are pearsthat no
- Now, in my middle age,
- Images are the heart of
- My lifehas appeared unclothed in
- What a lay me down
- Be careful of words, / ... they
- We talked death with burned
- Let the light be called
- Yes I try to kill
- When they turn the sunon
- And we are magic talking