Anne Sexton Quotes About Life

Quotes about: Life

• Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.

  Anne Sexton

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

• I’m lost. And it’s my own fault. It’s about time I figured out that I can’t ask people to keep me found.

  Anne Sexton

  Life, People, Faults

  Anne Sexton, Linda Gray Sexton, Lois Ames (2004). “Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters”, p.75, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Even without wars, life is dangerous.

  Anne Sexton

  Life, War, Reality

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

• Sometimes I fly like an eagle but with the wings of a wren

  Anne Sexton

  Life, Eagles, Wings

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

• I am out of practice at living.
  You are as brave as a motorcycle.

  Anne Sexton

  Life, Practice, Brave

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.258, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• 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

• life is a trick, life is a kitten in a sack.

  Anne Sexton

  Life, Life Is, Kitten

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.14, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• 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

  Life, Regret, Details

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

• 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

  Life, Pain, Bars

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

• 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)

• 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)

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