Anne Sexton Quotes About God

Quotes about: God

• I cannot walk an inch / without trying to walk to God.

  Anne Sexton

  God, Trying, Inches

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

• We are all writing God's poem.

  Anne Sexton

  God, Writing

  As quoted by Erica Jong, in "Into the lion's den" in The Guardian, October 26, 2000.

• Let God be some tribal female who is known but forbidden.

  Anne Sexton

  God, Letting Go, Female

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.82, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Evil is maybe lying to God.
  Or better, lying to love.

  Anne Sexton

  God, Lying, Evil

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

• God went out of me
  as if the sea dried up like sandpaper,
  as if the sun became a latrine.

  Anne Sexton

  God, Sea, Religion

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

• When the cow gives blood
  and the Christ is born
  we must all eat sacrifices.
  We must all eat beautiful women.

  Anne Sexton

  Beautiful, Christmas, God

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.200, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• True. There is
  a beautiful Jesus.
  He is frozen to his bones like a chunk of beef.
  How desperately he wanted to pull his arms in!
  How desperately I touch his vertical and horizontal axes!
  But I can't. Need is not quite belief.

  Anne Sexton

  Beautiful, God, Jesus

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.57, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Jesus saw the multitudes were hungry
  and He said, Oh Lord,
  send down a short-order cook.

  Anne Sexton

  God, Jesus, Order

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.195, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Today God gives milk / and I have the pail.

  Anne Sexton

  God, Giving, Today

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

• I want to kiss God on His nose and watch Him sneeze
  and so do you.
  Not out of disrespect.
  Out of pique.
  Out of a man-to-man thing.

  Anne Sexton

  God, Jesus, Kissing

• To be without God is to be a snake / who wants to swallow an elephant.

  Anne Sexton

  God, Snakes, Elephants

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

• Please God, we're all right here. Please leave us alone.
  Don't send death in his fat red suit and his ho-ho baritone.

  Anne Sexton

  God, Contentment, Red

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

• For forty days, for forty nights
  Jesus put one foot in front of the other
  and the man he carried,
  if it was a man,
  became heavier and heavier.

  Anne Sexton

  God, Jesus, Night

• I who was a house full of bowel movement,
  I who was a defaced altar,
  I who wanted to crawl toward God
  could not move nor eat bread.

  Anne Sexton

  God, Moving, House

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

• Then God spoke to me and said:
  People say only good things about Christmas.
  If they want to say something bad,
  they whisper.

  Anne Sexton

  Christmas, God, Jesus

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.200, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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