Anne Sexton Quotes About God
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Let God be some tribal female who is known but forbidden.
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God went out of me as if the sea dried up like sandpaper, as if the sun became a latrine.
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We are all writing God's poem.
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I want to kiss God on His nose and watch Him sneeze and so do you. Not out of disrespect. Out of pique. Out of a man-to-man thing.
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Jesus saw the multitudes were hungry and He said, Oh Lord, send down a short-order cook.
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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.
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I cannot walk an inch / without trying to walk to God.
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Evil is maybe lying to God. Or better, lying to love.
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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 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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To be without God is to be a snake / who wants to swallow an elephant.
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When the cow gives blood and the Christ is born we must all eat sacrifices. We must all eat beautiful women.
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Today God gives milk / and I have the pail.
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For forty days, for forty nights Jesus put one foot in front of the other and the man he carried, if it was a man, became heavier and heavier.
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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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