Anice Sexton Quotes

There`s a moon in my body, but I can`t see it! A moon and a sun. A drum never touched by hands, beating, and I can`t hear it!

Be strong then, and enter into your own body; there you have a sold place for your feet. Think about it carefully! Don`t go off somewhere else!

There is nothing but water in the holy pools. I know, I have been swimming there. All the gods sculpted of wood or ivory can't say a word. I know, I have been crying out to them. The Sacred Books of the East are nothing but words. I looked through their covers one day sideways. What Kabir talks of is only what he has lived through. If you have not lived through something, it is not true.

The apple blossom exists to create fruit; when that comes, the petal falls.

Do not go to the garden of flowers! O friend! go not there; In your body is the garden of flowers. Take your seat on the thousand petals of the lotus, and there gaze on the infinite beauty.

I am not a Hindu, Nor a Muslim am I! I am this body, a play Of five elements; a drama Of the spirit dancing With joy and sorrow.

Look at you, you madman! Screaming you are thirsty and dying in a desert, when all around you there is nothing but water!

When the bride is one with her lover, who cares about the wedding party?

I do not quote from the scriptures; I simply see what I see.

If you don`t break your ropes while you`re alive do you think ghosts will do it after?