Broken Quote 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…

— Anne Sexton

I am crazy as hell, but I know it. And knowing it is a kind of sanity that makes the sickness worse.

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Anne Sexton

Oh thumb, I want a drink it is dark, where are the big people, when will I get there...?

— 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…

— 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…

— Anne Sexton

Father, you died once, salted down at fifty-nine, packed down like a big snow angel, wasn't that enough?

— Anne Sexton

When I'm writing, I know I'm doing the thing I was born to do.

— 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…

— Anne Sexton