Quotes by : Anne Sexton

Watch out for intellect,because it knows so much it knows nothingand leaves you hanging upside down,mouthing....

Do you like me?”No answer.Silence bounced, fell off his tongueand sat between usand clogged my throat.It....

Give me your skin as sheer as a cobweb, let me open it up and listen in and scoop out the dark.

I like you; your eyes are full of language."[Letter to Anne Clarke, July 3, 1964.]

Some women marry houses.

Those moments before a poem comes, when the heightened awareness comes over you, and you realize a poem....

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.

Quite collected at cocktail parties,meanwhile in my headI'm undergoing open-heart surgery.

It is snowing and death bugs meas stubborn as insomnia.