Anne Sexton Quotes About Religion

Quotes about: Religion

• 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

• 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

• 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

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