I would like to think that no one would die anymore if we all believed in daisies but the worms know better,… — 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
If you meet a cross-eyed person you must plunge into the grass, alongside the chilly ants, fish through the green fingernails and… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
I keep feeling that there isn't one poem being written by any one of us - or a book or anything like… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
Today is made of yesterday, each time I steal toward rites I do not know, waiting for the lost ingredient, as if… — 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
They [daisies] are my favorite flower. There is something innocent and vulnerable about them as if they thanked you for admiring them. — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
If the doctors cure then the sun sees it. If the doctors kill then the earth hides it. The doctors should fear… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
I wonder if the artist ever lives his life--he is so busy recreating it. — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
I think it will be a miracle if I don't someday end up killing myself. — 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
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
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