Anne Sexton Quotes

Biography: Anne Sexton is known for her intensely personal and confessional poetr... more Biography: Anne Sexton is known for her intensely personal and confessional poetry. A Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, she explored themes of mental illness, depression, and familial relationships with raw honesty. Her collections, such as "Live or Die" and "To Bedlam and Part Way Back," remain influential in contemporary poetry. less

"Will you ever bring a better gift for the world?""Real faith means holding yourself to a promise.""I am always pleased in the praise of others.""Life is a sentence without any pardon.""Joy, which was the small publicity of the pagan.""What a luxury it is to be alive.""My dear, it was so much easier loving you as a pen.""I look for the way things will turn out spiraling.""I am alone here in my own mind.""There is nothing more boring than the truth.""In a dream you are never eighty.""The joy that isn't shared dies young.""Live or die, but don't poison everything.""Watch out for intellect, because it knows so much it knows nothing.""We are all writing God's poem""In the end, I am reduced by my choices whether bad or good.""You are the ego, the logic and the sense. You are the neverending presence of you.""Maybe I'm lucky to be going so slowly, because I may be going in the wrong direction.""I think: the sky is blue and the flowers are red.""I am alive when your fingers are."

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