627 Quotes by Anne Sexton

I am God, la de dah.

Fee-fi-fo-fum -Now I'm borrowed.Now I'm numb.

That’s what I do: I make coffee and occasionally succumb to suicidal nihilism. But you shouldn’t worry — poetry is still first. Cigarettes and alcohol follow

The grass as bristly and stout as chives and me wondering when the ground will break and me wondering how anything fragile survives

Even without wars, life is dangerous.

Those moments before a poem comes, when the heightened awareness comes over you, and you realize a poem is buried there somewhere, you prepare yourself. I run around, you know, kind of skipping around the house, marvelous elation. It’s as though I could fly.

Some women marry houses.

Some ghosts are women. Not angels, but ghosts.

If this is hell, then hell could not be much,neither as special nor as ugly as I was told.