Anne Sexton Quotes - Page 3

The windows, the starving windows that drive the trees like nails into my heart.

I'm the crazy one who thinks that words reach people.

The trouble with therapy is that it makes life go backwards.

The snow has quietness in it; no songs, no smells, no shouts or traffic. When I speak my own voice shocks me.

All day I've built a lifetime and now the sun sinks to undo it.

Let God be some tribal female who is known but forbidden.

I would like a simple life / yet all night I am laying / poems away in a long box.

Love your self's self where it lives.

She is so naked and singular. She is the sum of yourself and your dream. Climb her like a monument, step after step. She is solid.

Daisies in water are the longest lasting flower you can give to someone. Fact. Buy daisies. Not roses.

Don't bite till you know if it's bread or stone.

A woman / who loves a woman / is forever young.

I've grown tired of love You are the trouble with me I watch you walk right by

I am so imperfect, can you love me when really my soul is deformed? Will you love me anyhow?

Rocks crumble, make new forms, oceans move the continents, mountains rise up and down like ghosts yet all is natural, all is change.

To tell the truth days are all the same size and words aren't much company.

It is June. I am tired of being brave.

Poetry is my life, my postmark, my hands, my kitchen, my face.

To love another is somethinglike prayer and it can't be planned, you just fallinto its arms because your belief undoes your disbelief.

Psychiatry is a dirty mirror.

this is no dream just my oily life where the people are alibis and the street is unfindable for an entire lifetime.

I cannot walk an inch / without trying to walk to God.

Poetry to me is prayer.

Writers are such phonies: they sometimes have wise insights but they don't live by them at all. That's what writers are like...you think they know something, but usually they are just messes.

Sometimes I fly like an eagle but with the wings of a wren