Anne Sexton Quotes About Dogs

Quotes about: Dogs

• 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

  Dog, Hate, Men

  Anne Sexton (1978). “Words for Dr. Y.: uncollected poems with three stories”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

• 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

  Life, Dog, Fighting

  Anne Sexton (1974). “The death notebooks”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

• 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

  Dog, Sleep, Jewels

  Anne Sexton, “The Other”

• unless I can shake myself free of my dog, my flag,
  of my desk, my mind, I find life a bit of a drag.
  Not always, mind you. Usually I'm like my frying pan
  useful, graceful, sturdy and with no caper, no plan.

  Anne Sexton

  Dog, Boredom, Mind

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.263, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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