Anne Sexton famous quotes

As it has been said: Love and a cough cannot be concealed. Even a small cough. Even a small love.
-- Anne Sexton

#Said

I am a collection of dismantled almosts.
-- Anne Sexton

#Collections

Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.
-- Anne Sexton

#Saint #Poet #Moderation

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.
-- Anne Sexton

#Life #People #Faults

Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.
-- Anne Sexton

#Inspirational #Life #Beautiful

Watch out for intellect, because it knows so much it knows nothing and leaves you hanging upside down, mouthing knowledge as your heart falls out of your mouth.
-- Anne Sexton

#Love #Fall #Heart

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

#Death #Daughter #Fathers Day

Meanwhile in my head, I’m undergoing open-heart surgery.
-- Anne Sexton

#Heart #Open Heart #Surgery

Perhaps I am no one. True, I have a body and I cannot escape from it. I would like to fly out of my head, but that is out of the question.
-- Anne Sexton

#Body

I am younger each year at the first snow. When I see it, suddenly, in the air, all little and white and moving; then I am in love again and very young and I believe everything.
-- Anne Sexton

#Believe #Moving #Air

When I'm writing, I know I'm doing the thing I was born to do.
-- Anne Sexton

#Inspirational #Writing #Born

Only my books anoint me, and a few friends, those who reach into my veins.
-- Anne Sexton

#Book #Veins #Few Friends

The sanest thing in this world is love.
-- Anne Sexton

#Positive Thinking #Thinking #World

Somebody who should have been born is gone.
-- Anne Sexton

#Abortion #Gone #Born

In a dream you are never eighty.
-- Anne Sexton

#Dream #Aging

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.
-- Anne Sexton

#Mind #Maps #Kind

I am crazy as hell, but I know it. And knowing it is a kind of sanity that makes the sickness worse.
-- Anne Sexton

#Crazy #Knowing #Kind

One can't build little white picket fences to keep nightmares out.
-- Anne Sexton

#White #Littles #Nightmare

Yesterday I did not want to be borrowed but this is the typewriter that sits before me and love is where yesterday is at.
-- Anne Sexton

#Love Is #Typewriters #Yesterday

emerald as heavy as a golf course, ruby as dark as an afterbirth, diamond as white as sun on the sea...
-- Anne Sexton

#Dark #Golf #Sea

A woman who writes feels too much.
-- Anne Sexton

#Writing #Too Much #Feels

The joy that isn't shared dies young.
-- Anne Sexton

#Happiness #Joy #Inner Peace

Love? Be it man. Be it woman. It must be a wave you want to glide in on, give your body to it, give your laugh to it, give, when the gravelly sand takes you, your tears to the land. To love another is something like prayer and can't be planned, you just fall into its arms because your belief undoes your disbelief.
-- Anne Sexton

#Prayer #Fall #Love Is

All I am is the trick of words writing themselves.
-- Anne Sexton

#Writing #Tricks

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

#Beer #Voice #Squash

All I wanted was a little piece of life, to be married, to have children.... I was trying my damnedest to lead a conventional life, for that was how I was brought up, and it was what my husband wanted of me. But one can't build little white picket fences to keep the nightmares out.
-- Anne Sexton

#Children #Husband #White

Suicide is, after all, the opposite of the poem.
-- Anne Sexton

#Suicide #Opposites

Writers are such phonies: they sometimes have wise insights but they don't live by them at all. That's what writers are like...you think they know something, but usually they are just messes.
-- Anne Sexton

#Wise #Thinking #Sometimes

I hoard books. They are people who do not leave.
-- Anne Sexton

#Book #People

O starry night, This is how I want to die
-- Anne Sexton

#Night #Want #I Want To Die