627 Quotes by Anne Sexton

the trouble with therapy is that it makes life go backwards ...

Poor thing. To die and never see Brooklyn.

Letters are false really - they are expressions of the way you wish you were instead of the way you are ...

Bless all useful objects, the spoons made of bone, the mattress I cook my dreams upon, the typewriter that is my church with an altar of keys always waiting.

But my future is a secret. / It is as shy as a mole.

Images are probably the most important part of the poem. First of all you want to tell a story, but images are what are going to shore it up and get to the heart of the matter.

In a letter (no matter how quickly it is written or honestly or freely or lovingly) it is more possible to be loving and lovable, more possible to reach out and to take in ... I feel I have somehow deceived you into thinking this is really a human relationship. It is a letter relationship between humans ...

It would be pleasant to be drunk.

Mood can be as important as sense.