"The Saints come, as human as a mouth, with a bag of God in their backs, like a hunchback, they come, they come marching in."
Read quote
3 likes
Quote collection
Anne Sexton quotes (page 17 of 17)
332 quotes — follow a thought to its full quote page.
"Take your foot out of the graveyard, they are busy being dead."
Read quote
3 likes
"Jewels! Today each twig is important, each ring, each infection, each form is all that the gods must have meant."
Read quote
3 likes
"I put the gold star up in the front window beside the flag. Alterations is what I know and what I did: hems, gussets and seams."
Read quote
3 likes
"Fear / a motor, / pumps me around and around / until I fade slowly."
Read quote
3 likes
"She suffers according to the digits of my hate. I hear the filaments of alabaster. I would lie down with them and lift my madness off like a wig. I would lie outside in a room of wool and let the snow cover me. Paris white or flake white or argentine, all in the washbasin of my mouth, calling “Oh.” I am empty. I am witless. Death is here. There is no other settlement."
Read quote
3 likes
"The family story tells, and it was told true, of my great-grandfather who begat eight genius children and bought twelve almost new grand pianos. He left a considerable estate when he died."
Read quote
3 likes
"My objects dream and wear new costumes, compelled to, it seems, by all the words in my hands and the sea that bangs in my throat."
Read quote
3 likes
"When the cow gives blood and the Christ is born we must all eat sacrifices. We must all eat beautiful women."
Read quote
3 likes
"Then God spoke to me and said: People say only good things about Christmas. If they want to say something bad, they whisper."
Read quote
3 likes
"Please God, we're all right here. Please leave us alone. Don't send death in his fat red suit and his ho-ho baritone."
Read quote
3 likes
"I want to kiss God on His nose and watch Him sneeze and so do you. Not out of disrespect. Out of pique. Out of a man-to-man thing."
Read quote
3 likes