“To love another is somethinglike prayer and it can't be planned, you just fallinto its arms because your belief undoes your disbelief.” BeliefPrayerArmsDisbelief Author:Anne Sexton
“The man who goes through life with an uncertain doctrine not knowing what he believes, what a poor, powerless creature he is! He goes around through the world as a man goes down through the street with a poor, wounded arm, forever dodging people be meets on the street for fear they may touch him.” PeopleMenWorldBelieveMayBeliefPoorForeverKnowingStreetsHe ManArmsCreaturesDoctrineNot KnowingUncertainWoundedPowerless Author:Phillips Brooks
“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.” NeedsI CanGodWantedBeautifulReligionJesusBeliefChristArmsJesus ChristBonesFrozenBeefChunksAxesVerticalHorizontal Book:Selected Poems of Anne Sexton Source: Selected Poems of Anne Sexton