To be without God is to be a snake / who wants to swallow an elephant. — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Jesus saw the multitudes were hungry and He said, Oh Lord, send down a short-order cook. — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
God went out of me as if the sea dried up like sandpaper, as if the sun became a latrine. — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
I raise my pelvis to God so that it may know the truth of how flowers smash through the long winter. — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
I want to kiss God on His nose and watch Him sneeze and so do you. Not out of disrespect. Out of… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
God went out of me as if the sea dried up like sandpaper, as if the sun became a latrine. God went… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
True. There is a beautiful Jesus. He is frozen to his bones like a chunk of beef. How desperately he wanted to… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
For forty days, for forty nights Jesus put one foot in front of the other and the man he carried, if it… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
I love you. You are closest to my heart, closer than any other human being. You are my extension. You are my… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
“Welcome Morning" There is joy in all: in the hair I brush each morning, in the Cannon towel, newly washed, that I… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
Then God spoke to me and said: People say only good things about Christmas. If they want to say something bad, they… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
I who was a house full of bowel movement, I who was a defaced altar, I who wanted to crawl toward God… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
When the cow gives blood and the Christ is born we must all eat sacrifices. We must all eat beautiful women. — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
“For God was as large as a sunlamp and laughed his heat at us and therefore we did not cringe at the… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
Blind with love, my daughter has cried nightly for horses, those long-necked marchers and churners that she has mastered, any and all, reigning them… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
I am crazy as hell, but I know it. And knowing it is a kind of sanity that makes the sickness worse. — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
And what of the dead? They lie without shoes in the stone boats. They are more like stone than the sea would be if… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
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… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
I have forgiven all the old actors for dying. A new one comes on with the same lines, like large white growths, in his… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
“From the Garden” Come, my beloved, consider the lilies. We are of little faith. We talk too much. Put your mouthful of words away… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
Oh thumb, I want a drink it is dark, where are the big people, when will I get there...? — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
I want to kiss God on His nose and watch Him sneeze and so do you. Not out of disrespect. Out of pique. Out… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
I, in my brand new body, which was not a woman's yet, told the stars my questions and thought God could really see the… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
Father, you died once, salted down at fifty-nine, packed down like a big snow angel, wasn't that enough? — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
Cinderella and the prince lived, they say, happily ever after, like two dolls in a museum case never bothered by diapers or dust, never… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
