Anne Sexton Quotes About Today

Quotes about: Today

• Today life opened inside me like an egg.

  Anne Sexton

  Today Life, Eggs, Today

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.117, 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 tell it stories now and then
  and feed it images like honey.
  I will not speculate today
  with poems that think they're money.

  Anne Sexton

  Thinking, Poetry, Stories

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

• Jewels! Today each twig is important,
  each ring, each infection, each form
  is all that the gods must have meant.

  Anne Sexton

  Nature, Jewels, Important

• Today is made of yesterday, each time I steal
  toward rites I do not know, waiting for the lost
  ingredient, as if salt or money or even lust
  would keep us calm and prove us whole at last.

  Anne Sexton

  Yesterday, Waiting, Lust

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.25, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• There is no word for time.
  Today we will
  not think to number another summer
  or watch its white bird into the ground.

  Anne Sexton

  Summer, Time, Thinking

  Anne Sexton, “The Road Back”

• There is hope.
  There is hope everywhere.
  Today God give milk
  and I have the pail.

  Anne Sexton

  Hope, Snow, Giving

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

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