Anne Sexton Quotes About Dreams

Quotes about: Dreams

• In a dream you are never eighty.

  Anne Sexton

  Dream, Age, Youth

  "Old" l. 18 (1962)

• She is so naked and singular. She is the sum of yourself and your dream. Climb her like a monument, step after step. She is solid.

  Anne Sexton

  Dream, Steps, Naked

  Anne Sexton (1999). “Love Poems”, p.22, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• I am your dwarf. I am the enemy within. I am the boss of your dreams. See. Your hand shakes. It is not palsy or booze. It is your Doppelganger trying to get out. Beware...Beware...

  Anne Sexton

  Dream, Dwarves, Hands

  Anne Sexton (2001). “Transformations”, p.17, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• My objects dream and wear new costumes,
  compelled to, it seems, by all the words in my hands
  and the sea that bangs in my throat.

  Anne Sexton

  Dream, Hands, Sea

  Anne Sexton (1975). “The Awful Rowing Toward God”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

• I, in my brand new body,
  which was not a woman's yet,
  told the stars my questions
  and thought God could really see
  the heat and the painted light,
  elbows, knees, dreams, goodnight.

  Anne Sexton

  Dream, Stars, Light

  Anne Sexton, Linda Gray Sexton, Lois Ames (2004). “Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters”, p.2, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Bless all useful objects,
  the spoons made of bone,
  the mattress I cook my dreams upon,
  the typewriter that is my church
  with an altar of keys always waiting.

  Anne Sexton

  Dream, Keys, Typewriters

  Anne Sexton (1975). “The Awful Rowing Toward God”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

• this is no dream
  just my oily life
  where the people are alibis
  and the street is unfindable for an
  entire lifetime.

  Anne Sexton

  Life, Dream, Loss

  Anne Sexton (1976). “45 Mercy Street”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

• So I won't hang around in my hospital shift,
  repeating The Black Mass and all of it.
  I say Live, Live because of the sun,
  the dream, the excitable gift.

  Anne Sexton

  Life, Dream, Black

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.119, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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