627 Quotes by Anne Sexton

Take adultery or theft. Merely sins. It is evil who dines on the soul, stretching out its long bone tongue. It is evil who tweezers my heart, picking out its atomic worms.

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.

Inside many of us is a small old man who wants to get out.

I’m an empress. I wear an apron. My typewriter writes. It didn’t break the way it warned. Even crazy, I’m as nice as a chocolate bar.

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

One of my secret instructions to myself as a poet is “Whatever you do, don’t be boring.”

O yellow eye, let me be sick with your heat, let me be feverish and frowning.

In an old time there was a king as wise as a dictionary.

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