627 Quotes by Anne Sexton

When the cow gives blood and the Christ is born we must all eat sacrifices. We must all eat beautiful women.

being sixteen in the pants I died full of questions

Then God spoke to me and said: People say only good things about Christmas. If they want to say something bad, they whisper.

Then all this became history. Your hand found mine. Life rushed to my fingers like a blood clot. Oh, my carpenter, the fingers are rebuilt. They dance with yours.

Let God be some tribal female who is known but forbidden.

Our eyes are full of terrible confessions.

For I could not read or speak and on the long nights I could not turn the moon off or count the lights of cars across the ceiling.

I want to kiss God on His nose and watch Him sneeze and so do you. Not out of disrespect. Out of pique. Out of a man-to-man thing.

You must be a poet, a lady of evil luck desiring to be what you are not, longing to be what you can only visit.