627 Quotes by Anne Sexton

Jesus saw the multitudes were hungry and He said, Oh Lord, send down a short-order cook.

The joy that isn't shared dies young.

But even in a telephone booth evil can seep out of the receiver and we must cover it with a mattress, and then tear it from its roots and bury it, bury it.

I am in my own mind. I am locked in the wrong house.

I can only sign over everything, the house, the dog, the ladders, the jewels, the soul, the family tree, the mailbox. Then I can sleep. Maybe.

My sleeping pill is white. It is a splendid pearl; it floats me out of myself, my stung skin as alien as a loose bolt of cloth.

All day I've built a lifetime and now the sun sinks to undo it.

The place I live in is a kind of maze and I keep seeking the exit or the home.

I would like a simple life / yet all night I am laying / poems away in a long box.