627 Quotes by Anne Sexton

Now, in my middle age, about nineteen in the head I’d say, I am rowing, I am rowing...

You cutting the lawn, fixing the machines, all this leprous day and then more vodka, more soda and the pond forgiving our bodies, the pond sucking out the throb.

I have forgiven all the old actors for dying. A new one comes on with the same lines, like large white growths, in his mouth. The dancers come on from the wings, perfectly mated.

Jewels! Today each twig is important, each ring, each infection, each form is all that the gods must have meant.

Alone in our place I was a guest.

Well, one gets out of bed and the planets don’t always hiss or muck up the day, each day.

Poems aren’t postcards to send home.

My poems only come when I have almost lost the ability to utter a word. To speak, in a way, of the unspeakable.

Of course the New Testament is very small. Its mouth opens four times as out-of-date as a prehistoric monster, yet somehow man-made...