Quote

I’m lost. And it’s my own fault. It’s about time I figured out that I can’t ask people to keep me found.

Anne Sexton

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Anne Sexton
Age: 45 †
Born: 1928
Born: November 9
Died: 1974
Died: October 4
Poet
Writer
Newton
Massachusetts
Anne Gray Harvey
Keep
Time
Life
Figured
People
Fault
Faults
Asks
Lost
Found

More quotes by Anne Sexton

Image
You who have inhabited me in the deepest and most broken place, are going, going
Anne Sexton
Image
Every time I get happy the Nana-hex comes through. Birds turn into plumber's tools, a sonnet turns into a dirty joke, a wind turns into a tracheotomy, a boat turns into a corpse.
Anne Sexton
Image
Let the light be called Day so that men may grow corn or take busses.
Anne Sexton
Image
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.
Anne Sexton
Image
I am a collection of dismantled almosts.
Anne Sexton
Image
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.
Anne Sexton
Image
Daisies in water are the longest lasting flower you can give to someone. Fact. Buy daisies. Not roses.
Anne Sexton
Image
You lay, a small knuckle on my white bed lay, that fist like a snail, small and strong at my breast. Your lips are animals you are fed with love. At first, hunger is not wrong.
Anne Sexton
Image
Suicide is, after all, the opposite of the poem.
Anne Sexton
Image
I tell it stories now and then and feed it images like honey. I will not speculate today with poems that think they're money.
Anne Sexton
Image
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.
Anne Sexton
Image
Let there be seasons so that our tongues will be rich in asparagus and limes.
Anne Sexton
Image
I wonder if the artist ever lives his life--he is so busy recreating it.
Anne Sexton
Image
My objects dream and wear new costumes, compelled to, it seems, by all the words in my hands and the sea that bangs in my throat.
Anne Sexton
Image
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.
Anne Sexton
Image
Jesus saw the multitudes were hungry and He said, Oh Lord, send down a short-order cook.
Anne Sexton
Image
this is no dream just my oily life where the people are alibis and the street is unfindable for an entire lifetime.
Anne Sexton
Image
Sometimes the soul takes pictures of things it has wished for, but never seen.
Anne Sexton
Image
The town is silent. The night boils with eleven stars. Oh starry starry night! This is how I want to die.
Anne Sexton
Image
Jewels! Today each twig is important, each ring, each infection, each form is all that the gods must have meant.
Anne Sexton