Quote

In a dream you are never eighty.

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
Never
Eighty
Dreamer
Aging
Youth
Age
Dream

More quotes by Anne Sexton

Image
I was spread out dailyand examined for flaws.
Anne Sexton
Image
The grass as bristly and stout as chives and me wondering when the ground will break and me wondering how anything fragile survives
Anne Sexton
Image
Once I was beautiful. Now I am myself, Counting this row and that row of moccasins Waiting on the silent shelf.
Anne Sexton
Image
Pulling off the fat diamond engagement ring, pulling off the elopement wedding ring, and holding them, clicking them in thumb and forefinger, the indent of twenty-five years, like a tiny rip leaving its mark.
Anne Sexton
Image
God is only mocked by believers.
Anne Sexton
Image
Not that it was beautiful, but that I found some order there.
Anne Sexton
Image
O yellow eye, let me be sick with your heat, let me be feverish and frowning.
Anne Sexton
Image
The sanest thing in this world is love.
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
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
Don't bite till you know if it's bread or stone.
Anne Sexton
Image
You cutting the lawn, fixing the machines, all this leprous day and then more vodka, more soda and the pond forgiving our bodies, the pond sucking out the throb.
Anne Sexton
Image
This is what poems are: with mercy for the greedy, they are the tongue's wrangle, the world's pottage, the rat's star.
Anne Sexton
Image
Emerald as heavy as a golf course, ruby as dark as an afterbirth, diamond as white as sun on the sea.
Anne Sexton
Image
A woman who writes feels too much.
Anne Sexton
Image
Images are the heart of poetry ... You're not a poet without imagery.
Anne Sexton
Image
Need is not quite belief.
Anne Sexton
Image
Psychiatry is a dirty mirror.
Anne Sexton
Image
It is in the small things we see it. The child's first step, as awesome as an earthquake. The first time you rode a bike, wallowing up the sidewalk.
Anne Sexton
Image
Let there be seasons so that our tongues will be rich in asparagus and limes.
Anne Sexton