Anne Sexton's Quotes

It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.

Live or die, but don't poison everything.

Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.

Death's in the good-bye.

The beautiful feeling after writing a poem is on the whole better even than after sex, and that's saying a lot.

God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.

Need is not quite belief.

Even without wars, life is dangerous.

God owns heaven but He craves the earth.

I am not immortal. Faustus and I are the also-ran.

In a dream you are never eighty.

Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.

The joy that isn't shared dies young.