Quote

The windows, the starving windows that drive the trees like nails into my heart.

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
Like
Starving
Windows
Nails
Trees
Drive
Window
Tree
Heart

More quotes by Anne Sexton

Image
All day I've built a lifetime and now the sun sinks to undo it.
Anne Sexton
Image
I was the girl of the chain letter, the girl full of talk of coffins and keyholes, the one of the telephone bills, the wrinkled photo and the lost connections.
Anne Sexton
Image
God is only mocked by believers.
Anne Sexton
Image
Depression is boring, I think and I would do better to make some soup and light up the cave.
Anne Sexton
Image
Thumbs grow into my throat. I wear slaps like a spot of rouge.
Anne Sexton
Image
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.
Anne Sexton
Image
O yellow eye, let me be sick with your heat, let me be feverish and frowning.
Anne Sexton
Image
My sleeping pill is white. It is a splendid pearl it floats me out of myself, my stung skin as alien as a loose bolt of cloth.
Anne Sexton
Image
Blind with love, my daughter has cried nightly for horses, those long-necked marchers and churners that she has mastered, any and all, reigning them in like a circus hand.
Anne Sexton
Image
Give me your skin as sheer as a cobweb, let me open it up and listen in and scoop out the dark.
Anne Sexton
Image
I would like to bury all the hating eyes under the sand somewhere.
Anne Sexton
Image
What's missing is the eyeballs in each of us, but it doesn't matter because you've got the bucks, the bucks, the bucks.
Anne Sexton
Image
My life has appeared unclothed in court, detail by detail, death-bone witness by death-bone witness, and I was shamed at the verdict.
Anne Sexton
Image
I'm the crazy one who thinks that words reach people.
Anne Sexton
Image
Not that it was beautiful, but that I found some order there.
Anne Sexton
Image
I keep feeling that there isn't one poem being written by any one of us - or a book or anything like that. The whole life of us writers, the whole product I guess I mean, is the one long poem - a community effort if you will. It's all the same poem. It doesn't belong to any one writer - it's God's poem perhaps. Or God's people's poem.
Anne Sexton
Image
I hoard books. They are people who do not leave.
Anne Sexton
Image
When the cow gives blood and the Christ is born we must all eat sacrifices. We must all eat beautiful women.
Anne Sexton
Image
No matter whose bed you die in the bed will be yours for your voyage onto the surgical andiron of God.
Anne Sexton
Image
I put the gold star up in the front window beside the flag. Alterations is what I know and what I did: hems, gussets and seams.
Anne Sexton