Anne Sexton Quotes about Prayer

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Love? Be it man. Be it woman. It must be a wave you want to glide in on, give your body to it, give your laugh to it, give, when the gravelly sand takes you, your tears to the land. To love another is something like

Love? Be it man. Be it woman. It must be a wave you want to glide in on, give your body to it, give your laugh to it, give, when the gravelly sand takes you, your tears to the land. To love another is something like prayer and can't be planned, you just fall into its arms because your belief undoes your disbelief.

Anne Sexton

Prayer, Fall, Love Is

Anne Sexton, “Admonitions To A Special Person”

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

Anne Sexton

Prayer, Arms, Belief

Anne Sexton, “Admonitions To A Special Person”

Poetry to me is prayer.

Anne Sexton

Prayer, Poetry

Look to your heart that flutters in and out like a moth. God is not indifferent to your need. You have a thousand prayers but God has one.

Anne Sexton

Prayer, Heart, Needs

I love you. You are closest to my heart, closer than any other human being. You are my extension. You are my prayer. You are my belief in God. For better or worse you inherit me.

Anne Sexton

Love, Prayer, Heart

Anne Sexton, Linda Gray Sexton, Lois Ames (2004). “Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters”, p.342, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt