627 Quotes by Anne Sexton

There is no word for time. Today we will not think to number another summer or watch its white bird into the ground.

I tied down time with a rope but it came back. Then I put my head in a death bowl and my eyes shut up like clams. They didn't come back.

Man is a bird full of mud, I say aloud. And death looks on with a casual eye and scratches his anus.

Yes, I know. Death sits with his key in my lock. Not one day is taken for granted. Even nursery rhymes have put me in hock.

Daisies in water are the longest lasting flower you can give to someone. Fact. Buy daisies. Not roses.

Poets are sitting in my kitchen. Why do these poets lie? Why do children get children and Did you hear what it said?

I would like to think that no one would die anymore if we all believed in daisies but the worms know better, don't they? They slide into the ear of a corpse and listen to his great sigh.

Everyone has left me except my muse, that good nurse. She stays in my hand, a mild white mouse.

Rejoice with the day lily for it is born for a day to live by the mailbox and glorify the roadside