Anne Sexton Quotes about Children

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All I wanted was a little piece of life, to be married, to have children.... I was trying my damnedest to lead a conventional life, for that was how I was brought up, and it was what my husband wanted of me. But one

All I wanted was a little piece of life, to be married, to have children.... I was trying my damnedest to lead a conventional life, for that was how I was brought up, and it was what my husband wanted of me. But one can't build little white picket fences to keep the nightmares out.

Anne Sexton

Children, Husband, White

It is in the small things we see it. The child's first step, as awesome as an earthquake. The first time you rode a bike, wallowing up the sidewalk.

Anne Sexton

Courage, Children, Earthquakes

Anne Sexton (1975). “The Awful Rowing Toward God”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

When they turn the sun on again I'll plant children under it, I'll light up my soul with a match and let it sing.

Anne Sexton

Hope, Children, Light

Anne Sexton (1978). “Words for Dr. Y.: uncollected poems with three stories”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

Loving me with my shoes off means loving my long brown legs, sweet dears, as good as spoons; and my feet, those two children let out to play naked.

Anne Sexton

Sweet, Children, Mean

Anne Sexton (1999). “Love Poems”, p.35, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

the heart, this child of myself that resides in the flesh, this ultimate signature of the me, the start of my blindness and sleep, builds a death crèche.

Anne Sexton

Children, Heart, Sleep

Anne Sexton (1999). “Love Poems”, p.25, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I am tearing the feathers out of the pillows, waiting, waiting for Daddy to come home and stuff me so full of our infected child that I turn invisible, but married, at last.

Anne Sexton

Marriage, Children, Home

Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.254, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The Witch's Life" When I was a child there was an old woman in our neighborhood whom we called The Witch. All day she peered from her second story window from behind the wrinkled curtains and sometimes she would open the window and yell: Get out of my life! She had hair like kelp and a voice like a boulder. I think of her sometimes now and wonder if I am becoming her.

Anne Sexton

Children, Thinking, Hair

Anne Sexton (1975). “The Awful Rowing Toward God”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

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.

Anne Sexton

Children, Piano, Eight

Anne Sexton (1964). “Selected poems”

I did not know the woman I would be nor that blood would bloom in me each month like an exotic flower, nor that children, two monuments, would break from between my legs.

Anne Sexton

Children, Growing Up, Flower