627 Quotes by Anne Sexton

I wonder if the artist ever lives his life--he is so busy recreating it.

No matter whose bed you die in the bed will be yours for your voyage onto the surgical andiron of God.

My faith is a great weight hung on a small wire, as doth the spider hang her baby on a thin web.

Every time I get happy the Nana-hex comes through. Birds turn into plumber's tools, a sonnet turns into a dirty joke, a wind turns into a tracheotomy, a boat turns into a corpse....

I who was a house full of bowel movement, I who was a defaced altar, I who wanted to crawl toward God could not move nor eat bread.

For forty days, for forty nights Jesus put one foot in front of the other and the man he carried, if it was a man, became heavier and heavier.

All considerations for these human remains! They must have an escort! They are classified!

What's the point of fighting the dollars when all you need is a warm bed? When the dog barks you let him in. All we need is someone to let us in. And one other thing: to consider the lilies in the field.

I am out of practice at living. You are as brave as a motorcycle.