J Sexton Quotes

#1. Now he is gone
as you are gone.
But he belongs to me like lost baggage.

Anne Sexton

#2. Conversion is not for the faint of heart. It is a difficult process, requiring effort and perseverance.

John Sexton

#3. I don't know why this chick has this effect on me, I'm not the boyfriend type. I don't do love.

L.J. Sexton

#4. What is a church?-Our honest sexton tells, 'Tis a tall building, with a tower and bells.

George Crabbe

#5. Poetry to me is prayer ...

Anne Sexton

#6. Even so, I must admire your skill.
You are so gracefully insane.

Anne Sexton

#7. I did not know the woman I would be
nor that blood would bloom in me
each month like an exotic flower,
nor that children,
two monuments,
would break from between my legs ...

Anne Sexton

#8. When I teach and meet a class for the first time, you realize that there are people there that have exceptional abilities or have the potential to do exceptional things and you never know who those people are. My job is to provide the best information I can.

John Sexton

#9. 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

#10. Two daughters, pretty enough
but with hearts like blackjacks.

Anne Sexton

#11. As I consider myself nothing nor nobody more than Peter Sellers in Being There or at my liveliest as Inspector Clousseau, it is difficult to make "Susie" sound interesting?

Susie Duncan Sexton

#12. I can only sign over everything,
the house, the dog, the ladders, the jewels,
the soul, the family tree, the mailbox.
Then I can sleep.
Maybe.

Anne Sexton

#13. That's what I do: I make coffee and occasionally succumb to suicidal nihilism. But you shouldn't worry - poetry is still first. Cigarettes and alcohol follow

Anne Sexton

#14. What's missing is the eyeballs
in each of us, but it doesn't matter
because you've got the bucks, the bucks, the bucks.

Anne Sexton

#15. Maybe Angelo was right. Maybe there was something. I still suspected it was the wine.

Marie Sexton

#16. 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

#17. All the oxygen of the world was in them.
All the feet of the babies of the world were in them.
All the crotches of the angels of the world were in them.
All the morning kisses of Philadelphia were in them.

Anne Sexton

#18. Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.

Anne Sexton

#19. Well, one gets out of bed and the planets don't always hiss or muck up the day, each day.

Anne Sexton

#20. I'm in pain because the day is ending and somehow I am never healing.

Anne Sexton

#21. I fear I will be ripped open and found unsightly.

Anne Sexton

#22. The bottom line is that your performance is made in the editing room.

Brent Sexton

#23. The boys and girls are one tonight.
They unbutton blouses. They unzip flies.
They take off shoes. They turn off the light.
The glimmering creatures are full of lies.
They are eating each other. They are overfed.
At night, alone, I marry the bed.

Anne Sexton

#24. I'm an empress.
I wear an apron.
My typewriter writes.
It didn't break the way it warned.
Even crazy, I'm as nice
as a chocolate bar.

Anne Sexton

#25. No one to hate except the slim fish of memory
that slides in and out of my brain.

Anne Sexton

#26. I've never seen a surface that I think is more seductive in image making.

John Sexton

#27. My sleeping pill is white.
It is a splendid pearl;
it floats me out of myself,
my stung skin as alien
as a loose bolt of cloth.

Anne Sexton

#28. The man
inside of woman
ties a knot
so that they will
never again be separate ...

Anne Sexton

#29. Be careful of words, / ... they can be both daisies and bruises.

Anne Sexton

#30. The sea is mother-death and she is a mighty female, the one who wins, the one who sucks us all up.

Anne Sexton

#31. I imitatea memory of beliefthat I do not own.

Anne Sexton

#32. The joy that isn't shared dies young.

Anne Sexton