Anne Sexton

The place I live in is a kind of maze and I keep seeking the exit or the home.

It doesnt matter who my father was. It matters who I remember he was.

It doesnt matter who my father was it matters who I remember he was.

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

Be careful of words they can be both daisies and bruises.

Craft is a trick you make up to let you write the poem.

The joy that isn't shared dies young.

Live or die, but don't poison everything.

In a dream you are never eighty.

Death's in the good-bye.

God owns heaven but He craves the earth.

The future is a fog that is still hanging out over the sea a boat that floats home or does not.

Jewels! Today each twig is important, each ring, each infection, each form is all that the gods must have meant.

Need is not quite belief.

Nature is full of teeth that come in one by one, then decay, fall out

Daisies in water are the longest lasting flower you can give to someone. Fact. Buy daisies. Not roses.

A starving man doesn't ask what the meal is.

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

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

The grass as bristly and stout as chives and me wondering when the ground will break and me wondering how anything fragile survives

It is June. I am tired of being brave.

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

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

Even without wars, life is dangerous.

It is love that walks away and yet we have terrible mouths and soft milk hands. We worry with like. We walk away like love.

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

Depression is boring I think and I would do better to make some soup and light up the cave.