627 Quotes by Anne Sexton

God owns heaven but He craves the earth.

At six I lived in a graveyard full of dolls, avoiding myself, my body, the suspect in its grotesque house.

As for me, I am a watercolor. I wash off.

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

Perhaps I am no one. True, I have a body and I cannot escape from it. I would like to fly out of my head, but that is out of the question.

emerald as heavy as a golf course, ruby as dark as an afterbirth, diamond as white as sun on the sea...

What a lay me down this is with two pink, two orange, two green, two white goodnights.

Watch out for love (unless it is true, and every part of you says yes including the toes), it will wrap you up like a mummy, and your scream won't be heard and none of your running will run.

I’ll put it out there: I am scarred by the nostalgic indicipherability of my own desires; I an engulfed by the intimidating unknown, pushed through darkness and dragged down by the irretrievable past sweetness of my memories.