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We are all writing God's poem.

We are all writing God's poem.

Anne Sexton
God, Writing
As quoted by Erica Jong, in "Into the lion's den" in The Guardian, October 26, 2000.

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

Anne Sexton
God, Letting Go, Female
Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.82, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

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

Evil is maybe lying to God. Or better, lying to love.

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

Jesus saw the multitudes were hungry and He said, Oh Lord, send down a short-order cook.

Anne Sexton
God, Jesus, Order
Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.195, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

God went out of me as if the sea dried up like sandpaper, as if the sun became a latrine.

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

To be without God is to be a snake / who wants to swallow an elephant.

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

When the cow gives blood and the Christ is born we must all eat sacrifices. We must all eat beautiful women.

Anne Sexton
Beautiful, Christmas, God
Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.200, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Today God gives milk / and I have the pail.

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

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.

Anne Sexton
God, Jesus, Kissing

I who was a house full of bowel movement, I who was a defaced altar, I who wanted to crawl toward God could not move nor eat bread.

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

Then God spoke to me and said: People say only good things about Christmas. If they want to say something bad, they whisper.

Anne Sexton
Christmas, God, Jesus
Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.200, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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.

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

True. There is a beautiful Jesus. He is frozen to his bones like a chunk of beef. How desperately he wanted to pull his arms in! How desperately I touch his vertical and horizontal axes! But I can't. Need is not quite belief.

Anne Sexton
Beautiful, God, Jesus
Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.57, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

For forty days, for forty nights Jesus put one foot in front of the other and the man he carried, if it was a man, became heavier and heavier.

Anne Sexton
God, Jesus, Night

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