--- title: "16 White Quotes By Anne Sexton" description: "16 White quotes by Anne Sexton. Plus more from Anne Sexton and more White sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/707/anne-sexton-645_dream_one-can-t-build-little-white-picket-fenc_302728.png" --- > [One can't build little white picket fences to keep nightmares out.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-sexton/one-can-t-build-little-white-picket-fences-to-keep-nightmares-out/) [Anne Sexton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-sexton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/707/anne-sexton-645_dream_one-can-t-build-little-white-picket-fenc_302728.png) > [What a lay me down this is with two pink, two orange, two green, two white goodnights.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-sexton/what-a-lay-me-down-this-is-with-two-pink-two-orange-two-green-two/) [Anne Sexton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-sexton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/359/anne-sexton-645_green_what-a-lay-me-down-this-is-with-two-pink_117481.png) > [Everyone has left me except my muse, that good nurse. She stays in my hand, a mild white mouse.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-sexton/everyone-has-left-me-except-my-muse-that-good-nurse-she-stays-in-my/) [Anne Sexton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-sexton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/482/anne-sexton-645_hands_everyone-has-left-me-except-my-muse-that_850504.png) > [Yet love enters my blood like an I.V., dripping in its little white moments.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-sexton/yet-love-enters-my-blood-like-an-i-v-dripping-in-its-little-white/) [Anne Sexton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-sexton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/047/anne-sexton-645_blood_yet-love-enters-my-blood-like-an-i-v-dri_1001160.png) > [emerald as heavy as a golf course, ruby as dark as an afterbirth, diamond as white as sun on the sea...](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-sexton/emerald-as-heavy-as-a-golf-course-ruby-as-dark-as-an-afterbirth/) [Anne Sexton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-sexton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d36/anne-sexton-645_courses_emerald-as-heavy-as-a-golf-course-ruby-a_2281194.png) > [I was only sitting here in my white study with the awful black words pushing me around.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-sexton/i-was-only-sitting-here-in-my-white-study-with-the-awful-black-words/) [Anne Sexton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-sexton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/321/anne-sexton-645_awful_i-was-only-sitting-here-in-my-white-stud_214376.png) > [There is no word for time. Today we will not think to number another summer or watch its white bird into the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-sexton/there-is-no-word-for-time-today-we-will-not-think-to-number-another/) [Anne Sexton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-sexton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b53/anne-sexton-645_bird_there-is-no-word-for-time-today-we-will_1080570.png) > [I think I've been writing black poems all along, wearing my white mask. I'm always the victim ... but no longer!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-sexton/i-think-i-ve-been-writing-black-poems-all-along-wearing-my-white-mask/) [Anne Sexton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-sexton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ea6/anne-sexton-645_black_i-think-i-ve-been-writing-black-poems-al_1780782.png) > [The silence is death. It comes each day with its shock to sit on my shoulder, a white bird, and peck at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-sexton/the-silence-is-death-it-comes-each-day-with-its-shock-to-sit-on-my/) [Anne Sexton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-sexton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ec6/anne-sexton-645_bird_the-silence-is-death-it-comes-each-day-w_634385.png) > [And thus Snow White became the prince's bride. The wicked queen was invited to the wedding feast and when she arrived there…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-sexton/and-thus-snow-white-became-the-prince-s-bride-the-wicked-queen-was/) [Anne Sexton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-sexton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5db/anne-sexton-645_brides_and-thus-snow-white-became-the-prince-s_1620175.png) > [You lay, a small knuckle on my white bed; lay, that fist like a snail, small and strong at my breast. Your…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-sexton/you-lay-a-small-knuckle-on-my-white-bed-lay-that-fist-like-a-snail/) [Anne Sexton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-sexton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fae/anne-sexton-645_animal_you-lay-a-small-knuckle-on-my-white-bed_2356726.png) > [I have forgiven all the old actors for dying. A new one comes on with the same lines, like large white growths,…](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/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7ed/anne-sexton-645_acting_i-have-forgiven-all-the-old-actors-for-d_38416.png) > [I am younger each year at the first snow. When I see it, suddenly, in the air, all little and white and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-sexton/i-am-younger-each-year-at-the-first-snow-when-i-see-it-suddenly-in/) [Anne Sexton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-sexton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/10e/anne-sexton-645_air_i-am-younger-each-year-at-the-first-snow_636101.png) > [She suffers according to the digits of my hate. I hear the filaments of alabaster. I would lie down with them and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-sexton/she-suffers-according-to-the-digits-of-my-hate-i-hear-the-filaments/) [Anne Sexton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-sexton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/158/anne-sexton-645_calling_she-suffers-according-to-the-digits-of-m_2682083.png) > [All I wanted was a little piece of life, to be married, to have children… I was trying my damnedest to lead…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-sexton/all-i-wanted-was-a-little-piece-of-life-to-be-married-to-have/) [Anne Sexton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-sexton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/09e/anne-sexton-645_being-married_all-i-wanted-was-a-little-piece-of-life_1384161.png) > [My sleeping pill is white. It is a splendid pearl; it floats me out of myself, my stung skin as alien as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-sexton/my-sleeping-pill-is-white-it-is-a-splendid-pearl-it-floats-me-out-of/) [Anne Sexton](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anne-sexton/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7f5/anne-sexton-645_aliens_my-sleeping-pill-is-white-it-is-a-splend_3145493.png) ## Other authors on White ## 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/white/anne-sexton/#itemlist", "name": "16 White Quotes By Anne Sexton", "numberOfItems": 16, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "One can't build little white picket fences to keep nightmares out.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Anne Sexton" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-sexton/one-can-t-build-little-white-picket-fences-to-keep-nightmares-out/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/707/anne-sexton-645_dream_one-can-t-build-little-white-picket-fenc_302728.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/707/anne-sexton-645_dream_one-can-t-build-little-white-picket-fenc_302728.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/707/anne-sexton-645_dream_one-can-t-build-little-white-picket-fenc_302728.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“One can't build little white picket fences to keep nightmares out.” — Anne Sexton", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "What a lay me down this is with two pink, two orange, two green, two white goodnights.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Anne Sexton" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anne-sexton/what-a-lay-me-down-this-is-with-two-pink-two-orange-two-green-two/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/359/anne-sexton-645_green_what-a-lay-me-down-this-is-with-two-pink_117481.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/359/anne-sexton-645_green_what-a-lay-me-down-this-is-with-two-pink_117481.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/359/anne-sexton-645_green_what-a-lay-me-down-this-is-with-two-pink_117481.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“What a lay me down this is with two pink, two orange, two green, two white goodnights.” — Anne Sexton", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Everyone has left me except my muse, that good nurse. 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