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Famous Anne Sexton Quotes
“I cannot walk an inch / without trying to walk to God.”
Source: The Awful Rowing Toward God
“Today God gives milk / and I have the pail.”
Source: The Awful Rowing Toward God
“To be without God is to be a snake / who wants to swallow an elephant.”
Source: The Awful Rowing Toward God
Source: The Awful Rowing Toward God
“God went out of me as if the sea dried up like sandpaper, as if the sun became a latrine.”
Source: The Awful Rowing Toward God
Source: Selected Poems of Anne Sexton
“Evil is maybe lying to God. Or better, lying to love.”
Source: The Awful Rowing Toward God
“Jesus saw the multitudes were hungry and He said, Oh Lord, send down a short-order cook.”
Source: Selected Poems of Anne Sexton
Source: Words for Dr. Y.: uncollected poems with three stories
“Let God be some tribal female who is known but forbidden.”
Source: Selected Poems of Anne Sexton
Source: Selected Poems of Anne Sexton
Source: Selected Poems of Anne Sexton