Quote

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

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
Star
Fronts
Window
Seams
Front
Hem
Gold
Alterations
Stars
Flag
Work
Beside
Flags

More quotes by 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
And the aura of you remains, remains, remains...
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
Now that I have written many words, and let out so many loves, for so many, and been altogether what I always was a woman of excess, of zeal and greed, I find the effort useless.
Anne Sexton
Image
Someone is dead. Even the trees know it, those poor old dancers who come on lewdly, all pea-green scarfs and spine pole.
Anne Sexton
Image
When I'm writing, I know I'm doing the thing I was born to do.
Anne Sexton
Image
Writers are such phonies: they sometimes have wise insights but they don't live by them at all. That's what writers are like...you think they know something, but usually they are just messes.
Anne Sexton
Image
The town is silent. The night boils with eleven stars. Oh starry starry night! This is how I want to die.
Anne Sexton
Image
The sanest thing in this world is love.
Anne Sexton
Image
The little girl skipped by under the wrinkled oak leaves and held fast to a replica of herself.
Anne Sexton
Image
I sit at my desk each night with no place to go, opening the wrinkled maps of Milwaukee and Buffalo, the whole U.S., its cemeteries, its arbitrary time zones, through routes like small veins, capitals like small stones.
Anne Sexton
Image
Take your foot out of the graveyard, they are busy being dead.
Anne Sexton
Image
It is June. I am tired of being brave.
Anne Sexton
Image
Blue eyes wash off sometimes.
Anne Sexton
Image
I’ll put it out there: I am scarred by the nostalgic indicipherability of my own desires I an engulfed by the intimidating unknown, pushed through darkness and dragged down by the irretrievable past sweetness of my memories.
Anne Sexton
Image
Nature is full of teeth that come in one by one, then decay, fall out.
Anne Sexton
Image
Letters are false really - they are expressions of the way you wish you were instead of the way you are.
Anne Sexton
Image
To be without God is to be a snake / who wants to swallow an elephant.
Anne Sexton
Image
Thief!- how did you crawl into, crawl down alone into the death I wanted so badly and for so long.
Anne Sexton
Image
Please God, we're all right here. Please leave us alone. Don't send death in his fat red suit and his ho-ho baritone.
Anne Sexton