Anne Sexton Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Anne Sexton:

The joy that isn't shared dies young.
~Anne Sexton


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/anne-sexton-quotes/#b6108f9b

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/anne-sexton-quotes/#b826e3fc

In a dream you are never eighty.
~Anne Sexton


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/anne-sexton-quotes/#e545cfdf

Live or die, but don't poison everything.
~Anne Sexton


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/anne-sexton-quotes/#baa17fb1

God owns heaven but He craves the earth.
~Anne Sexton


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/anne-sexton-quotes/#f1d62caf

Death's in the good-bye.
~Anne Sexton


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/anne-sexton-quotes/#4f98d333

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/anne-sexton-quotes/#1743ceab

Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.
~Anne Sexton


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/anne-sexton-quotes/#c7f8b278

Even without wars, life is dangerous.
~Anne Sexton


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/anne-sexton-quotes/#00b31c3c

Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.
~Anne Sexton


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/anne-sexton-quotes/#99b64812

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/anne-sexton-quotes/#89aad491

Need is not quite belief.
~Anne Sexton


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/anne-sexton-quotes/#38493073

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


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/anne-sexton-quotes/#f9ed5d59

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