Quote

When I lie down to love, old dwarf heart shakes her head. Like an imbecile she was born old.

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
Heart
Imbeciles
Love
Dwarves
Like
Dwarfs
Shakes
Head
Age
Lying
Imbecile
Born
Dwarf

More quotes by Anne Sexton

Image
I am in my own mind. I am locked in the wrong house.
Anne Sexton
Image
My life has appeared unclothed in court, detail by detail, death-bone witness by death-bone witness, and I was shamed at the verdict.
Anne Sexton
Image
Here in the hospital, I say,that is not my body, not my body.I am not here for the doctorsto read like a recipe.
Anne Sexton
Image
Now I am just an elderly lady who is full of spleen, who humps around greater Boston in a God-awful hat, who never lived and yet outlived her time, hating men and dogs and Democrats.
Anne Sexton
Image
I find now, swallowing one teaspoon of pain, that it drops downward to the past where it mixes with last year’s cupful and downward into a decade’s quart and downward into a lifetime’s ocean. I alternate treading water and deadman’s float.
Anne Sexton
Image
Look to your heart that flutters in and out like a moth. God is not indifferent to your need. You have a thousand prayers but God has one.
Anne Sexton
Image
Once upon a time we were all born, popped out like jelly rolls forgetting our fishdom, the pleasuring seas, the country of comfort, spanked into the oxygens of death.
Anne Sexton
Image
But even in a telephone booth evil can seep out of the receiver and we must cover it with a mattress, and then tear it from its roots and bury it, bury it.
Anne Sexton
Image
Even without wars, life is dangerous.
Anne Sexton
Image
I suffer for birds and fireflies but not frogs, she said, and threw him across the room. Kaboom! Like a genie out of a samovar, a handsome prince arose in the corner of the bedroom.
Anne Sexton
Image
I am crazy as hell, but I know it. And knowing it is a kind of sanity that makes the sickness worse.
Anne Sexton
Image
I am teaching... This year it's kind of like having a love affair with a rhinoceros.
Anne Sexton
Image
To die whole, riddled with nothing but desire for it, is like breakfast after love.
Anne Sexton
Image
Big heart, wide as a watermelon, but wise as birth, there is so much abundance in the people I have.
Anne Sexton
Image
I would sell my life to avoid the pain that begins in the crib with its bars or perhaps with your first breath when the planets drill your future into you.
Anne Sexton
Image
I raise my pelvis to God so that it may know the truth of how flowers smash through the long winter.
Anne Sexton
Image
When I'm writing, I know I'm doing the thing I was born to do.
Anne Sexton
Image
think of innocent Icarus who is doing quite well: larger than a sail, over the fog and the blast of the plushy ocean, he goes. Admire his wings!
Anne Sexton
Image
I will be steel! I will build a steel bridge over my need! I will build a bomb shelter over my heart! But my future is a secret. It is as shy as a mole.
Anne Sexton
Image
In a dream you are never eighty.
Anne Sexton