Quotes by : Anne Sexton

Each night I am nailed into placeand forget who I am.Daddy? That's another kind of prison.It's not the....

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

I am God, la de dah.

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....

Clover['s] eyes are full of language.

Many women are singing together of this: one is in a shoe factory cursing the machine, one is at the....

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

As it has been said:Love and a coughcannot be concealed.Even a small cough.Even a small love.