35 Quotes by Anne Sexton
Anne Sexton was an American poet and writer who is known for her confessional style of poetry. Her work explores themes such as depression, mental illness, and personal transformation, and often reflects on her own experiences with these issues. Sexton's writing is raw, powerful, and intimate, and she is considered one of the most important poets of the twentieth century. Her work has been both praised for its honesty and criticized for its sometimes graphic and disturbing imagery. (Bio)
Anne Sexton Quotes
Live or die, but don't poison everything (Meaning)
Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance. (Meaning)
I am a collection of dismantled almosts.
Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.
As it has been said: Love and a cough cannot be concealed. Even a small cough. Even a small love.
I’m lost. And it’s my own fault. It’s about time I figured out that I can’t ask people to keep me found.
Meanwhile in my head, I’m undergoing open-heart surgery.
I am alone here in my own mind. There is no map and there is no road. It is one of a kind just as yours is.
It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.
I am crazy as hell, but I know it. And knowing it is a kind of sanity that makes the sickness worse.
The joy that isn't shared dies young.
Only my books anoint me, and a few friends, those who reach into my veins.
I would like a simple life / yet all night I am laying / poems away in a long box.
...became a woman who learned her own skin and dug into her soul and found it full.
We are all writing God's poem.
Sometimes the soul takes pictures of things it has wished for, but never seen.
I'm the crazy one who thinks that words reach people.
The snow has quietness in it; no songs, no smells, no shouts or traffic. When I speak my own voice shocks me.
The sanest thing in this world is love.
There is rust in my mouth,the stain of an old kiss.
Be careful of words, ... they can be both daisies and bruises.
One can't build little white picket fences to keep nightmares out.
Our eyes are full of terrible confessions.
... a starving man doesn't ask what the meal is.
Don't bite till you know if it's bread or stone.
A woman who loves a woman is forever young.
All I am is the trick of words writing themselves.
Poetry is my life, my postmark, my hands, my kitchen, my face.
As for me, I am a watercolor. I wash off.
All day I've built a lifetime and now the sun sinks to undo it.
Images are the heart of poetry ... You're not a poet without imagery.
I am not at home in myself. I am my own stranger.
I hoard books. They are people who do not leave.
Mood can be as important as sense.
And the aura of you remains, remains, remains...
― Anne Sexton Quotes
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