Quote

And thus Snow White became the prince's bride. The wicked queen was invited to the wedding feast and when she arrived there were red-hot iron shoes, in the manner of red-hot roller skates, clamped upon her feet.

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
Feet
Manner
Arrived
Upon
Hot
Prince
White
Snow
Invited
Clamped
Red
Wedding
Skates
Thus
Queen
Roller
Shoes
Queens
Bride
Became
Wicked
Feast
Marriage
Iron
Brides

More quotes by Anne Sexton

Image
The joy that isn't shared dies young.
Anne Sexton
Image
I love the word warm. It is almost unbearable-- so moist and breathlike.
Anne Sexton
Image
Don't bite till you know if it's bread or stone.
Anne Sexton
Image
Blue eyes wash off sometimes.
Anne Sexton
Image
There is a good look that I wear like a blood clot. I have sewn it over my left breast. I have made a vocation of it.
Anne Sexton
Image
And we are magic talking to itself, noisy and alone. I am queen of all my sins forgotten. Am I still lost? Once I was beautiful. Now I am myself
Anne Sexton
Image
All I am is the trick of words writing themselves.
Anne Sexton
Image
Though rain curses the window let the poem be made.
Anne Sexton
Image
All who love have lied.
Anne Sexton
Image
My death from the wrists, two name tags, blood worn like a corsage to bloom one on the left and one on the right.
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
The day of fire is coming, the thrush will fly ablaze like a little sky rocket.
Anne Sexton
Image
I tied down time with a rope but it came back. Then I put my head in a death bowl and my eyes shut up like clams. They didn't come back.
Anne Sexton
Image
The sky breaks. It sags and breathes upon my face. in the presence of mine enemies, mine enemies The world is full of enemies. There is no safe place.
Anne Sexton
Image
Some women marry houses. It's another kind of skin it has a heart, a mouth, a liver and bowel movements.
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
The soul was not cured, it was as full as a clothes closet of dresses that did not fit.
Anne Sexton
Image
You must be a poet, a lady of evil luck desiring to be what you are not, longing to be what you can only visit.
Anne Sexton
Image
My business is words. Words are like labels, or coins, or better, like swarming bees.
Anne Sexton
Image
And tonight our skin, our bones, that have survived our fathers, will meet, delicate in the hold, fastened together in an intricate lock. Then one of us will shout, My need is more desperate! and I will eat you slowly with kisses even though the killer in you has gotten out.
Anne Sexton