Quotes by Anne Sexton
I would like to think that no one would die anymore if we all believed in daisies...
Is it possible he marries a cripple out of admiration?
They are girls. Green girls. Death and life is their daily work....
Then he told the news media the strange details of his death...
Now that you are laid out, useless as a blind dog, now that you no longer lurk, the song rings in my head.
Ms. Dog wouldn't give them her buttocks. She would moon at them....
they were placed in a box and painted identically blue...
when it comes to my death let it be slow, let it be pantomime, this last peep show,...
To die whole, riddled with nothing but desire for it, is like breakfast after love.
she bit the towel and called on God and I saw her life stretch out . . ....
Yes, I know. Death sits with his key in my lock. Not one day is taken for granted. Even nursery rhymes have put me in hock.
Listen. We must all stop dying in the little ways, in the craters of hate, in the potholes of indifference....
My Sweeney, Mr. Eliot, is that Australian who came...
Why do you gather, my townsmen? There is no news here....
Some women marry houses. It's another kind of skin; it has a heart, a mouth, a liver and bowel movements.
The parasol girls slept, sun-sitting their lovely years.
His white head hung out like a carpet bag and his crotch turned blue as a blood blister,...
Death, you lie in my arms like a cherub, as heavy as bread dough. Your milky wings are as still as plastic.
My heart is on a budget. It keeps me on the brink.
Does he lie there forever, where his rifle waits, giant...
Never mind you and me. They could not listen....
I have put a padlock on you, Mother, dear dead human,...
I brush my hair, waiting in the pain machine for my bones to get hard,...
I tied down time with a rope but it came back....
Of course the New Testament is very small....
