Quote

Maybe I am becoming a hermit, opening the door for only a few special animals? Maybe my skull is too crowded and it has no opening through which to feed it soup?

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
Special
Crowded
Animal
Soup
Maybe
Feed
Opening
Animals
Hermit
Door
Hermits
Doors
Skull
Becoming
Skulls

More quotes by Anne Sexton

Image
I would like to bury all the hating eyes under the sand somewhere.
Anne Sexton
Image
They [daisies] are my favorite flower. There is something innocent and vulnerable about them as if they thanked you for admiring them.
Anne Sexton
Image
True. There is a beautiful Jesus. He is frozen to his bones like a chunk of beef. How desperately he wanted to pull his arms in! How desperately I touch his vertical and horizontal axes! But I can't. Need is not quite belief.
Anne Sexton
Image
I love you. You are closest to my heart, closer than any other human being. You are my extension. You are my prayer. You are my belief in God. For better or worse you inherit me.
Anne Sexton
Image
Let there be seasons so that our tongues will be rich in asparagus and limes.
Anne Sexton
Image
I'm hunting for the truth. It might be a kind of poetic truth, and not just a factual one, because behind everything that happens to you, there is another truth, a secret life.
Anne Sexton
Image
It's all a matter of history. Brandy is no solace. Librium only lies me down like a dead snow queen. Yes! I am still the criminal.
Anne Sexton
Image
Rocks crumble, make new forms, oceans move the continents, mountains rise up and down like ghosts yet all is natural, all is change.
Anne Sexton
Image
Maybe, although my heart is a kitten of butter, I am blowing it up like a zeppelin.
Anne Sexton
Image
My eyes, those sluts, those whores, would play no more.
Anne Sexton
Image
I am your dwarf. I am the enemy within. I am the boss of your dreams. See. Your hand shakes. It is not palsy or booze. It is your Doppelganger trying to get out. Beware...Beware...
Anne Sexton
Image
I am teaching... This year it's kind of like having a love affair with a rhinoceros.
Anne Sexton
Image
... and my love stays bitterly glowing, spasms of it will not sleep, and I am helpless and thirsty and need shade but there is no one to cover me- not even God.
Anne Sexton
Image
At six I lived in a graveyard full of dolls, avoiding myself, my body, the suspect in its grotesque house.
Anne Sexton
Image
Now, in my middle age, about nineteen in the head I'd say, I am rowing, I am rowing.
Anne Sexton
Image
It was as if a morning-glory had bloomed in her throat, and all that blue and small pollen ate into my heart, violent and religious
Anne Sexton
Image
God owns heaven but He craves the earth.
Anne Sexton
Image
It is June. I am tired of being brave.
Anne Sexton
Image
... man is eating the earth up like a candy bar.
Anne Sexton
Image
I see myself as one would see another. I have been cut in two.
Anne Sexton