Anne Sexton Quotes About Waiting

Quotes about: Waiting

• Once I was beautiful. Now I am myself, Counting this row and that row of moccasins Waiting on the silent shelf.

  Anne Sexton

  Beautiful, Waiting, Silent

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.10, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Today is made of yesterday, each time I steal
  toward rites I do not know, waiting for the lost
  ingredient, as if salt or money or even lust
  would keep us calm and prove us whole at last.

  Anne Sexton

  Yesterday, Waiting, Lust

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.25, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• I brush my hair,
  waiting in the pain machine for my bones to get hard,
  for the soft, soft bones that were laid apart
  and were screwed together. They will knit.
  And the other corpse, the fractured heart,
  I feed it piecemeal, little chalice. I'm good to it.

  Anne Sexton

  Pain, Heart, Hair

  Anne Sexton (1999). “Love Poems”, p.25, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• I am tearing the feathers out of the pillows,
  waiting, waiting for Daddy to come home
  and stuff me so full of our infected child
  that I turn invisible, but married,
  at last.

  Anne Sexton

  Marriage, Children, Home

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.254, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Bless all useful objects,
  the spoons made of bone,
  the mattress I cook my dreams upon,
  the typewriter that is my church
  with an altar of keys always waiting.

  Anne Sexton

  Dream, Keys, Typewriters

  Anne Sexton (1975). “The Awful Rowing Toward God”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

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