Exuberance Quote by Anne Sexton Download Open image “Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.” — Anne Sexton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Exuberance Moderation Poetry Saints
The saints differ from us in their exuberance, the excess of our human talents. Moderation is not their secret. It is in the wildness… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Saints are people who belong fully to God. They are not afraid of being mocked, misunderstood or marginalized. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
“Many people genuinely do not wish to be saints, and it is possible that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never had… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
There are no temptations from which assailed virtue may not gain strength, instead of falling before them, vanquished and subdued. — Albert Pike Copy Share Image
Saints cannot arise where there have been no warriors, nor philosophers where a prying beast does not remain hidden in the depths. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Saints cannot exist without a community, as they require, like all of us, nurturance by a people who, while often unfaithful, preserve the habits… — Stanley Hauerwas Copy Share Image
Saints were saints because they acted with loving kindness whether they felt like it or not. — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
But I replied that what made being alive almost worthwhile for me, besides music, was all the saints I met, who could be anywhere.… — Kurt Vonnegut 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
“My cheeks are red hot, my lip still trembles, because I sent my heart to speak; every word of it delusional and awkward, an… — Robert Walser Copy Share Image
All progress in literary style lies in the heroic resolve to cast aside accretions and exuberances, all the conventions of a past age that… — Havelock Ellis Copy Share Image
Even when I was in the orphanage, when I was roaming the street trying to find enough to eat, even then I thought of… — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
The saints differ from us in their exuberance, the excess of our human talents. Moderation is not their secret. It is in the wildness… — Phyllis McGinley Copy Share Image
Yet I have a clever touch and pander to your vices. While looking on in exultation. And so I play my game, with the… — Paul Meyer Copy Share Image
“Soon enough, we are all going to leave this earth for good. The thought of this alone should make us love deeply, and live… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
At last, after almost fifty years in the hopper, the most famous unpublished novel in America is in print. Who Shot the Water Buffalo?… — Ed McClanahan Copy Share Image
“The mountains of things we throw away are much greater than the things we use. In this, if no other way, we can see… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
And let us remember too that life, in its exuberance, always succeeds in overflowing the narrow limits within which man thinks he can confine… — Jacques Yves Cousteau Copy Share Image
How do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values? — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Joy is everywhere; it is in the earth's green covering of grass: in the blue serenity of the sky: in the reckless exuberance of… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
