Anne Sexton Quotes

The average person spends two weeks over their lifetime waiting for the traffic light to change.

Nature made the day for exercise, work and seeing to one's business; and ... it provides us with a candle, which is to say the bright and joyous light of the sun.

And I should mention the light which falls through the big windows this time of day italicizing everything it touches.

You don't go dancing in the day. You don't go golfing in the night.

Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.

This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays.

I've always been someone who's really tried to live in the here and now. My memory isn't very good so maybe that's why, but it just seems like I've been living this life, my current chapter, for a really long time and I don't really remember what it was like before. It's just been sort of ingrained in me. What I deal with day to day.

We all deal with issues of time. The first thing you do in the morning is look at the clock to see what time it is.

We spend so much time sublimatin', thinkin' about, 'What am I going to have for lunch, dinner?'

The kindly light has a brief period of shining.

Nothing affects people's lives who go in and out of New York more than their commute. It is unavoidable, and it must be done every day.

I still get the bus into town, still do all the things I used to before I was signed.

The everyday cares and duties, which men call drudgery, are the weights and counterpoises of the clock of time, giving its pendulum a true vibration and its hands a regular motion; and when they cease to hang upon its wheels, the pendulum no longer swings, the hands no longer move the clock stands still.

Like Mary, may we nurture the light born within us at Christmas. May we carry it everywhere in our daily lives.

Tis true, 'tis day; what though it be? O wilt thou therefore rise from me? Why should we rise, because 'tis light? Did we lie down, because 'twas night? Love which in spite of darkness brought us hither Should in despite of light keep us together.

A day, a livelong day, is not one thing but many. It changes not only in growing light toward zenith and decline again, but in texture and mood, in tone and meaning, warped by a thousand factors of season, of heat or cold, of still or multi winds, torqued by odors, tastes, and the fabrics of ice or grass, of bud or leaf or black-drawn naked limbs. And as a day changes so do its subjects, bugs and birds, cates, dogs, butterflies and people.

The night is just a part of the day

I can sleep a whole day. If no one woke me up, I would sleep for 24 hours. I think it's a combination of my age and my appreciation for sleep. Sleep is so wonderful. Sometimes you can oversleep and feel like you've waster your time, but I think it's one of the bestways to spend your time.

You've got to make haste while it's still light of day.

A thief loves the night. I am day. I reveal essences.

The daily activity that contributes most to happiness is having dinner with friends. The daily activity that detracts most from happiness is commuting. Eat more. Commute less.

Walking isn't a lost art: one must, by some means, get to the garage.

The hours here are flat and round, disks of gray layered one on top of the other...they move slowly, at a grind, until it seems as though they are not moving at all. They are just pressing down.

If I could save time in a bottle The first thing that I'd like to do Is to save every day

The web of marriage is made by propinquity, in the day to day living side by side, looking outward in the same direction. It is woven in space and in time of the substance of life itself.