627 Quotes by Anne Sexton

Then God spoke to me and said: People say only good things about Christmas. If they want to say something bad, they whisper.

When someone kisses someone or flushes the toilet it is my other who sits in a ball and cries. My other beats a tin drum in my heart. My other hangs up laundry as I try to sleep. My other cries and cries and cries when I put on a cocktail dress.

I don’t care, I love you anyhow. It is too late to turn you out of my heart. Part of you lives here.

To die whole, riddled with nothing but desire for it, is like breakfast after love.

I raise my pelvis to God so that it may know the truth of how flowers smash through the long winter.

There is a good look that I wear like a blood clot. I have sewn it over my left breast. I have made a vocation of it.

If the doctors cure then the sun sees it. If the doctors kill then the earth hides it. The doctors should fear arrogance more than cardiac arrest.

And we are magic talking to itself, noisy and alone. I am queen of all my sins forgotten. Am I still lost? Once I was beautiful. Now I am myself.

And if I tried to give you something else, something outside myself, you would not know that the worst of anyone can be, finally, an accident of hope.