Anne Sexton - God Quotes

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I cannot walk an inch
without trying to walk to God.

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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.

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Daylight is nobody's friend. God comes in like a landlord and flashes on his brassy lamp.

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I, in my brand new body,
which was not a woman's yet,
told the stars my questions
and thought God could really see
the heat and the painted light,
elbows, knees, dreams, goodnight.

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Please God, we're all right here. Please leave us alone.
Don't send death in his fat red suit and his ho-ho baritone.

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Then God spoke to me and said:
People say only good things about Christmas.
If they want to say something bad,
they whisper.

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I raise my pelvis to God
so that it may know the truth of how
flowers smash through the long winter.

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I love you. You are closest to my heart, closer than any other human being. You are my extension. You are my prayer. You are my belief in God. For better or worse you inherit me.

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

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Love your self's self where it lives.
There is no special God to refer to; or if there is,
why did I let you grow
in another place. You did not know my voice
when I came back to call. All the superlatives
of tomorrow's white tree and mistletoe
will not help you know the holidays you had to miss.

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The ground has on its clothes.
The trees poke out of sheets
and each branch wears the sock of God.

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And my love stays bitterly glowing, spasms of it will not sleep, and I am helpless and thirsty and need shade but there is no one to cover me- not even God.

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Now I am just an elderly lady who is full of spleen, who humps around greater Boston in a God-awful hat, who never lived and yet outlived her time, hating men and dogs and Democrats.

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God is not indifferent to your need.
You have a thousand prayers
but God has one.

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God went out of me as if the sea dried up like sandpaper, as if the sun became a latrine. God went out of my fingers. They became stone. My body became a side of mutton and despair roamed the slaughterhouse.

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I am, each day,
typing out the God
my typewriter believes in.
Very quick. Very intense,
like a wolf at a live heart.

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To be without God is to be a snake
who wants to swallow an elephant.

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