Quotes by Anne Sexton

Explore a curated collection of 29 quotes by Anne Sexton. Discover timeless wisdom, insightful thoughts, and memorable words that have inspired readers around the world. Browse through the gallery below and click on any quote to read more.

Do you like me?”No answer.Silence bounced, fell off his tongueand sat between usand clogged my throat.It slaughtered my — Anne Sexton
Live or die, but don't poison everything. — Anne Sexton
Wanting to Die Since you ask, most days I cannot remember.I walk in my clothing, unmarked by that voyage.Then the almost — Anne Sexton
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, — Anne Sexton
As it has been said:Love and a coughcannot be concealed.Even a small cough.Even a small love. — Anne Sexton
Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance. — Anne Sexton
Fee-fi-fo-fum -Now I'm borrowed.Now I'm numb. — Anne Sexton
That’s what I do: I make coffee and occasionally succumb to suicidal nihilism. But you shouldn’t worry — poetry is still — Anne Sexton
The grass as bristly and stout as chives and me wondering when the ground will break and me wondering how anything fragi — Anne Sexton
Those moments before a poem comes, when the heightened awareness comes over you, and you realize a poem is buried there — Anne Sexton
Some women marry houses. — Anne Sexton
Poetry led me by the hand out of madness. — Anne Sexton
I am, to be sure, afraid that if you knew me that you wouldn’t love me. But this must be faced…I fear it in any relation — Anne Sexton
Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard. — Anne Sexton
And what of the dead? They lie without shoesin the stone boats. They are more like stonethan the sea would be if it stop — Anne Sexton
I’d won the worldbut like aforsaken explorer,I’d lostmy map. — Anne Sexton
CourageIt is in the small things we see it.The child's first step,as awesome as an earthquake.The first time you rode a — Anne Sexton
We were fair game but we have kept out of the cesspool. We are strong. We are the good ones. Do not discover us for we l — Anne Sexton
Depression is boring, I thinkand I would do better to makesome soup and light up the cave. — Anne Sexton
But suicides have a special language.Like carpenters they want to know which tools.They never ask why build.Twice I have — Anne Sexton