627 Quotes by Anne Sexton

God is only mocked by believers.

Blue eyes wash off sometimes.

Here in the hospital, I say,that is not my body, not my body.I am not here for the doctorsto read like a recipe.

This is what poems are: with mercy for the greedy, they are the tongue's wrangle, the world's pottage, the rat's star.

I burn the way money burns.

the man inside of woman ties a knot so that they will never again be separate…

I am stuffing your mouth with your promises and watching you vomit them out upon my face.

Take your foot out of the graveyard, they are busy being dead.

O starry night, This is how I want to die