Anne Sexton Quotes

Anne Sexton
American Poet
Born: Nov 9, 1928
Died: Oct 4, 1974
Even God Life Mother Nothing You
Related authors: Edgar Allan Poe Emily Dickinson Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Maya Angelou Ralph Waldo Emerson Robert Frost T. S. Eliot Walt Whitman
Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard. Anne Sexton
Soul Down Put Close Listen Your Hard Ear
Live or die, but don't poison everything. Anne Sexton
Poison Live Everything Die
Need is not quite belief. Anne Sexton
Quite Belief Need
In a dream you are never eighty. Anne Sexton
You Dream Never Eighty
God owns heaven but He craves the earth. Anne Sexton
God Earth He Heaven Owns Craves
God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer. Anne Sexton
God Beer Brown Voice Full Soft
I am not immortal. Faustus and I are the also-ran. Anne Sexton
Immortal Am
Death's in the good-bye. Anne Sexton
Death Good-Bye
The beautiful feeling after writing a poem is on the whole better even than after sex, and that's saying a lot. Anne Sexton
Beautiful Saying Writing Better Sex Feeling Poem Lot Than After Whole Even
Most poets are mad. It doesn't qualify us for anything. Anne Sexton
Mad Poets Most Qualify Anything Us
Madness is a waste of time. It creates nothing. Anne Sexton
Time Madness Nothing Creates Waste Waste Of Time
Even though I'm often crazy - and I am, and I know it - still I fight it because I know how sterile, how futile, how bleak... nothing grows from it, and you, meanwhile, only grow into it like a snail. Anne Sexton
Crazy You Fight Nothing Though Futile Only Bleak Sterile Like Know Because How Am Still Snail Often Meanwhile Even Grow Grows
These poets (fans of whatever) should be contacting other young poets on their way - not those who have made it, who sit on a star and then have plenty of problems: usually no money, usually the fear their own writing is going down the sink hole. Anne Sexton
Writing Money Fear Problems Fans Made Sit Whatever Own Young Down Other Way Those Plenty Poets Sink Going Hole Then Should Who Star
Before I was married, I had never washed one dish or seen how you fried an egg or baking a potato. Anne Sexton
You Seen Before Married Potato Never Had Baking How Fried Egg Dish Washed
I want to be a child and not a mother, and I feel guilty about this. Anne Sexton
Mother Guilty About Feel Child Want
Until I was twenty-eight, I had a kind of buried self who didn't know she could do anything but make white sauce and diaper babies. I didn't know I had any creative depths. Anne Sexton
Creative White Babies Kind Could Self Had Know Until She Make Diaper Any Buried Anything Depths Who Sauce
I wrote some serious stuff in high school; however, I hadn't been exposed to any of the major poets, not even the minor ones... I read nothing but Sara Teasdale. Anne Sexton
School Nothing High Minor Some High School Poets Stuff Major Wrote Read However Been Any Exposed Even Serious

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