Anne Sexton Quotes about Life

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Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.

Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.

Anne Sexton

Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

I’m lost. And it’s my own fault. It’s about time I figured out that I can’t ask people to keep me found.

Anne Sexton

Life, People, Faults

Anne Sexton, Linda Gray Sexton, Lois Ames (2004). “Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters”, p.75, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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

Anne Sexton

Life, Dream, Loss

Anne Sexton (1976). “45 Mercy Street”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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

Anne Sexton

Life, Eagles, Wings

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

What's the point of fighting the dollars when all you need is a warm bed? When the dog barks you let him in. All we need is someone to let us in. And one other thing: to consider the lilies in the field.

Anne Sexton

Life, Dog, Fighting

Anne Sexton (1974). “The death notebooks”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

Even without wars, life is dangerous.

Anne Sexton

Life, War, Reality

Anne Sexton (1974). “The death notebooks”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

life is a trick, life is a kitten in a sack.

Anne Sexton

Life, Life Is, Kitten

Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.14, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

My life has appeared unclothed in court, detail by detail, death-bone witness by death-bone witness, and I was shamed at the verdict.

Anne Sexton

Life, Regret, Details

Anne Sexton (1976). “45 Mercy Street”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

So I won't hang around in my hospital shift, repeating The Black Mass and all of it. I say Live, Live because of the sun, the dream, the excitable gift.

Anne Sexton

Life, Dream, Black

Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.119, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I would sell my life to avoid the pain that begins in the crib with its bars or perhaps with your first breath when the planets drill your future into you.

Anne Sexton

Life, Pain, Bars

Anne Sexton (1976). “45 Mercy Street”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)