Quote

You who have inhabited me in the deepest and most broken place, are going, going

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
Broken
Place
Going
Inhabited
Deepest

More quotes by Anne Sexton

Image
Images are probably the most important part of the poem. First of all you want to tell a story, but images are what are going to shore it up and get to the heart of the matter.
Anne Sexton
Image
Fee-fi-fo-fum - Now I'm borrowed. Now I'm numb.
Anne Sexton
Image
It doesn't matter who my father was it matters who I remember he was.
Anne Sexton
Image
She is so naked and singular. She is the sum of yourself and your dream. Climb her like a monument, step after step. She is solid.
Anne Sexton
Image
So I won't hang around in my hospital shift, repeating The Black Mass and all of it. I say Live, Live because of the sun, the dream, the excitable gift.
Anne Sexton
Image
In a dream you are never eighty.
Anne Sexton
Image
I am crazy as hell, but I know it. And knowing it is a kind of sanity that makes the sickness worse.
Anne Sexton
Image
The Saints come, as human as a mouth, with a bag of God in their backs, like a hunchback, they come, they come marching in.
Anne Sexton
Image
Rejoice with the day lily for it is born for a day to live by the mailbox and glorify the roadside
Anne Sexton
Image
Suicides have a special language. Like carpenters they want to know which tools. They never ask why build.
Anne Sexton
Image
I must always forget how one word is able to pick out another, to manner another, until I have got something I might have said... but did not.
Anne Sexton
Image
All day I've built a lifetime and now the sun sinks to undo it.
Anne Sexton
Image
We are all writing God's poem.
Anne Sexton
Image
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
Image
The sanest thing in this world is love.
Anne Sexton
Image
The trouble with therapy is that it makes life go backwards.
Anne Sexton
Image
think of innocent Icarus who is doing quite well: larger than a sail, over the fog and the blast of the plushy ocean, he goes. Admire his wings!
Anne Sexton
Image
Our eyes are full of terrible confessions.
Anne Sexton
Image
Love? Be it man. Be it woman. It must be a wave you want to glide in on, give your body to it, give your laugh to it, give, when the gravelly sand takes you, your tears to the land. To love another is something like prayer and can't be planned, you just fall into its arms because your belief undoes your disbelief.
Anne Sexton
Image
The future is a fog that is still hanging out over the sea, a boat that floats home or does not. The trade winds blow me, and I do not know where the land is the waves fold over each other they are in love with themselves sleeping in their own skin and I float over them and I do not know about tomorrow.
Anne Sexton