Anne Sexton quotes

Anne Sexton was an influential American poet known for her deeply personal and confessional style of writing. Her work often explored themes of mental illness, death, and the female experience. She became a prominent voice in contemporary poetry through her candid and powerful verse. Here are 122 of her quotes:

It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was. (Anne Sexton)
Need is not quite belief. View quote
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Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard. View quote
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Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance. View quote
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In a dream you are never eighty. View quote
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We are all writing God's poem. View quote
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The joy that isn't shared dies young. View quote
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As for me, I am a watercolor. I wash off. View quote
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The beautiful feeling after writing a poem is on the whole better even than after sex, and that's saying a lot. View quote
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God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer. View quote
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All who love have lied. (Anne Sexton)
The tongue, the Chinese say, is like a sharp knife: it kills without drawing blood. View quote
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My eyes, those sluts, those whores, would play no more. View quote
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Death, I need my little addiction to you. I need that tiny voice who, even as I rise from the sea, all woman, all there, says kill me, kill me. View quote
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Even without wars, life is dangerous. View quote
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God is only mocked by believers. View quote
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God owns heaven but He craves the earth. View quote
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Blue eyes wash off sometimes. View quote
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I grow old on my bitterness. View quote
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I was spread out dailyand examined for flaws. View quote
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Live or die, but don't poison everything. (Anne Sexton)
I am stuffing your mouth with your promises and watching you vomit them out upon my face. View quote
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Even so, I must admire your skill. You are so gracefully insane. View quote
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But suicides have a special language. Like carpenters they want to know which tools. They never ask why build. View quote
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And what of the dead? They lie without shoes in their stone boats. They are more like stone than the sea would be if it stopped. They refuse to be blessed, throat, eye and knucklebone. View quote
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Anne Sexton

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Occupation: American Poet
Born: November 9, 1928
Died: October 4, 1974
Quotes count: 122
Wikipedia: Anne Sexton

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