Quotes by : Anne Sexton

Sometimes the soul takes pictures of things it has wished for, but never seen.

God went out of me as if the sea dried up like sandpaper, as if the sun became a latrine. God went out....

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

Clover['s] eyes are full of language.

And what of the dead? They lie without shoesin the stone boats. They are more like stonethan the sea....

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

Love your self's self where it lives.

I am, to be sure, afraid that if you knew me that you wouldn’t love me. But this must be faced…I....

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

I’d won the worldbut like aforsaken explorer,I’d lostmy map.