Anne Sexton Quotes About Earth

Quotes about: Earth

• God owns heaven but He craves the earth.

  Anne Sexton

  Heaven, Earth, Crave

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

• If I could blame it on all the mothers and fathers of the world, they of the lessons, the pellets of power, they of the love surrounding you like batter ... Blame it on God perhaps? He of the first opening that pushed us all into our first mistakes? No, I'll blame it on Man For Man is God and man is eating the earth up like a candy bar and not one of them can be left alone with the ocean for it is known he will gulp it all down. The stars (possibly) are safe. At least for the moment. The stars are pears that no one can reach, even for a wedding. Perhaps for a death.

  Anne Sexton

  Mother, Stars, Father

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

• ... man is eating the earth up like a candy bar.

  Anne Sexton

  Men, Bars, Earth

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

• Earth, earthriding your merry-go-roundtoward extinction,right to the rootsthickening the oceans like gravy,festering in your caves,you are becoming a latrine.

  Anne Sexton

  Ocean, Caves, Earth

  Anne Sexton, “As It Was Written”

• Women tell time by the body. They are like clocks. They are always fastened to the earth, listening for its small animal noises.

  Anne Sexton

  Time, Animal, Listening

• If the doctors cure
  then the sun sees it.
  If the doctors kill
  then the earth hides it.
  The doctors should fear arrogance
  more than cardiac arrest.

  Anne Sexton

  Doctors, Arrogance, Earth

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

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