Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Well, one gets out of bed and the planets don't always hiss or muck up the day, each day.
Anne Sexton
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Anne Sexton
Age: 45 †
Born: 1928
Born: November 9
Died: 1974
Died: October 4
Poet
Writer
Newton
Massachusetts
Anne Gray Harvey
Well
Always
Hiss
Muck
Astrology
Bed
Planets
Gets
Wells
More quotes by Anne Sexton
My husband sings Baa Baa black sheep and we pretend that all's certain and good, that the marriage won't end.
Anne Sexton
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
I see myself as one would see another. I have been cut in two.
Anne Sexton
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
The future is a fog that is still hanging out over the sea, a boat that floats home or does not.
Anne Sexton
I am out of practice at living. You are as brave as a motorcycle.
Anne Sexton
Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.
Anne Sexton
There is no word for time. Today we will not think to number another summer or watch its white bird into the ground.
Anne Sexton
Frog has no nerves. Frog is as old as a cockroach. Frog is my father's genitals. Frog is a malformed doorknob. Frog is a soft bag of green.
Anne Sexton
I am teaching... This year it's kind of like having a love affair with a rhinoceros.
Anne Sexton
Oh sharp diamond, my mother! I could not count the cost of all your faces, your moods that present that I lost. Sweet girl, my deathbed, my jewel-fingered lady...
Anne Sexton
As a writer one has to take the chance on being a fool.
Anne Sexton
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
Once I was a couple. I was my own king and queen with cheese and bread and rosé on the rocks of Rockport.
Anne Sexton
For forty days, for forty nights Jesus put one foot in front of the other and the man he carried, if it was a man, became heavier and heavier.
Anne Sexton
Letters are false really - they are expressions of the way you wish you were instead of the way you are.
Anne Sexton
I can only sign over everything, the house, the dog, the ladders, the jewels, the soul, the family tree, the mailbox. Then I can sleep. Maybe.
Anne Sexton
I think it will be a miracle if I don't someday end up killing myself.
Anne Sexton
If you meet a cross-eyed person you must plunge into the grass, alongside the chilly ants, fish through the green fingernails and come up with the four-leaf clover.
Anne Sexton
What's the point of fighting the dollars when all you need is a warm bed? When the dog barks you let him in. All we need is someone to let us in. And one other thing: to consider the lilies in the field.
Anne Sexton