627 Quotes by Anne Sexton

I see myself as one would see another. I have been cut in two.

Don’t bite till you know if it’s bread or stone.

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.

What a lay me down this is with two pink, two orange, two green, two white goodnights.

What’s missing is the eyeballs in each of us, but it doesn’t matter because you’ve got the bucks, the bucks, the bucks.

Why are all these dolls falling out of the sky? Was there a father? Or have the planets cut holes in their nets and let our childhood out, or are we the dolls themselves, born but never fed?

Being kissed on the back of the knee is a moth at the windowscreen...

My ideas are a curse. They spring from a radical discontent with the awful order of things. I play clown. I play carpenter. I play nurse. I play witch.

Today life opened inside me like an egg...