--- title: "13 Want Quotes By Anne Sexton" description: "13 Want quotes by Anne Sexton. Plus more from Anne Sexton and more Want sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/89a/anne-sexton-645_about_i-want-to-be-a-child-and-not-a-mother-an_858190.png" --- > [I want to be a child and not a mother, and I feel guilty about this.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-sexton/i-want-to-be-a-child-and-not-a-mother-and-i-feel-guilty-about-this/) [Anne Sexton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-sexton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/89a/anne-sexton-645_about_i-want-to-be-a-child-and-not-a-mother-an_858190.png) > [Inside many of us is a small old man who wants to get out.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-sexton/inside-many-of-us-is-a-small-old-man-who-wants-to-get-out/) [Anne Sexton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-sexton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5d8/anne-sexton-645_age_inside-many-of-us-is-a-small-old-man-who_1829116.png) > [O starry night, This is how I want to die](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-sexton/o-starry-night-this-is-how-i-want-to-die/) [Anne Sexton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-sexton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ac1/anne-sexton-645_dying_o-starry-night-this-is-how-i-want-to-die_1705681.png) > [To be without God is to be a snake / who wants to swallow an elephant.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-sexton/to-be-without-god-is-to-be-a-snake-who-wants-to-swallow-an-elephant/) [Anne Sexton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-sexton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/055/anne-sexton-645_elephant_to-be-without-god-is-to-be-a-snake-who-w_1830057.png) > [Suicides have a special language. Like carpenters they want to know which tools. They never ask why build.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-sexton/suicides-have-a-special-language-like-carpenters-they-want-to-know/) [Anne Sexton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-sexton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/241/anne-sexton-645_carpenter_suicides-have-a-special-language-like-ca_2938657.png) > [The town is silent. The night boils with eleven stars. Oh starry starry night! This is how I want to die.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-sexton/the-town-is-silent-the-night-boils-with-eleven-stars-oh-starry-starry/) [Anne Sexton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-sexton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/402/anne-sexton-645_dies_the-town-is-silent-the-night-boils-with_2826086.png) > [Oh thumb, I want a drink it is dark, where are the big people, when will I get there...?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-sexton/oh-thumb-i-want-a-drink-it-is-dark-where-are-the-big-people-when-will/) [Anne Sexton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-sexton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9ff/anne-sexton-645_bigs_oh-thumb-i-want-a-drink-it-is-dark-where_53004.png) > [Then God spoke to me and said: People say only good things about Christmas. If they want to say something bad, they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-sexton/then-god-spoke-to-me-and-said-people-say-only-good-things-about/) [Anne Sexton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-sexton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/055/anne-sexton-645_christ_then-god-spoke-to-me-and-said-people-say_3216732.png) > [I want to kiss God on His nose and watch Him sneeze and so do you. Not out of disrespect. Out of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-sexton/i-want-to-kiss-god-on-his-nose-and-watch-him-sneeze-and-so-do-you-not/) [Anne Sexton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-sexton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/93e/anne-sexton-645_bless_i-want-to-kiss-god-on-his-nose-and-watch_69524.png) > [Yesterday I did not want to be borrowed but this is the typewriter that sits before me and love is where yesterday…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-sexton/yesterday-i-did-not-want-to-be-borrowed-but-this-is-the-typewriter/) [Anne Sexton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-sexton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f69/anne-sexton-645_and-love_yesterday-i-did-not-want-to-be-borrowed_2990978.jpg) > [Love? Be it man. Be it woman. It must be a wave you want to glide in on, give your body to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-sexton/love-be-it-man-be-it-woman-it-must-be-a-wave-you-want-to-glide-in-on/) [Anne Sexton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-sexton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/196/anne-sexton-645_arms_love-be-it-man-be-it-woman-it-must-be-a_2419272.png) > [Images are probably the most important part of the poem. First of all you want to tell a story, but images are…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-sexton/images-are-probably-the-most-important-part-of-the-poem-first-of-all/) [Anne Sexton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-sexton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0d6/anne-sexton-645_firsts_images-are-probably-the-most-important-p_3019524.png) > [But suicides have a special language. Like carpenters they want to know which tools. They never ask why build. Twice I have…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-sexton/but-suicides-have-a-special-language-like-carpenters-they-want-to/) [Anne Sexton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-sexton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3e3/anne-sexton-645_carpenter_but-suicides-have-a-special-language-lik_176597.png) ## Other authors on Want ## More by Anne Sexton > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-sexton/blind-with-love-my-daughter-has-cried-nightly-for-horses-those-long/) [Anne Sexton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-sexton/) > [I am crazy as hell, but I know it. And knowing it is a kind of sanity that makes the sickness worse.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-sexton/i-am-crazy-as-hell-but-i-know-it-and-knowing-it-is-a-kind-of-sanity/) [Anne Sexton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-sexton/) > [And what of the dead? They lie without shoes in the stone boats. They are more like stone than the sea would be if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-sexton/and-what-of-the-dead-they-lie-without-shoes-in-the-stone-boats-they/) [Anne Sexton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-sexton/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-sexton/the-witch-s-life-when-i-was-a-child-there-was-an-old-woman-in-our/) [Anne Sexton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-sexton/) > [I have forgiven all the old actors for dying. A new one comes on with the same lines, like large white growths, in his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-sexton/i-have-forgiven-all-the-old-actors-for-dying-a-new-one-comes-on-with/) [Anne Sexton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-sexton/) > [“From the Garden” Come, my beloved, consider the lilies. We are of little faith. We talk too much. Put your mouthful of words away…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-sexton/from-the-garden-come-my-beloved-consider-the-lilies-we-are-of-little/) [Anne Sexton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-sexton/) > [Oh thumb, I want a drink it is dark, where are the big people, when will I get there...?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-sexton/oh-thumb-i-want-a-drink-it-is-dark-where-are-the-big-people-when-will/) [Anne Sexton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-sexton/) > [I want to kiss God on His nose and watch Him sneeze and so do you. Not out of disrespect. Out of pique. Out…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-sexton/i-want-to-kiss-god-on-his-nose-and-watch-him-sneeze-and-so-do-you-not/) [Anne Sexton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-sexton/) > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-sexton/i-in-my-brand-new-body-which-was-not-a-woman-s-yet-told-the-stars-my/) [Anne Sexton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-sexton/) > [Father, you died once, salted down at fifty-nine, packed down like a big snow angel, wasn't that enough?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-sexton/father-you-died-once-salted-down-at-fifty-nine-packed-down-like-a-big/) [Anne Sexton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-sexton/) > [When I'm writing, I know I'm doing the thing I was born to do.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-sexton/when-i-m-writing-i-know-i-m-doing-the-thing-i-was-born-to-do/) [Anne Sexton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-sexton/) > [Cinderella and the prince lived, they say, happily ever after, like two dolls in a museum case never bothered by diapers or dust, never…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-sexton/cinderella-and-the-prince-lived-they-say-happily-ever-after-like-two/) [Anne Sexton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-sexton/) > [“Quite collected at cocktail parties, meanwhile in my head I'm undergoing open-heart surgery.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-sexton/quite-collected-at-cocktail-parties-meanwhile-in-my-head-i-m/) [Anne Sexton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-sexton/) > [I cannot walk an inch / without trying to walk to God.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-sexton/i-cannot-walk-an-inch-without-trying-to-walk-to-god/) [Anne Sexton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-sexton/) > [Now that I have written many words, and let out so many loves, for so many, and been altogether what I always was a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-sexton/now-that-i-have-written-many-words-and-let-out-so-many-loves-for-so/) [Anne Sexton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-sexton/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/want/anne-sexton/#itemlist", "name": "13 Want Quotes By Anne Sexton", "numberOfItems": 13, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I want to be a child and not a mother, and I feel guilty about this.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Anne Sexton" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-sexton/i-want-to-be-a-child-and-not-a-mother-and-i-feel-guilty-about-this/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/89a/anne-sexton-645_about_i-want-to-be-a-child-and-not-a-mother-an_858190.png", "contentUrl": 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