627 Quotes by Anne Sexton

Writers are such phonies: they sometimes have wise insights but they don't live by them at all. That's what writers are like...you think they know something, but usually they are just messes.

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

I imitatea memory of beliefthat I do not own.

I leave you, home, when I'm ripped from the doorstep by commerce or fate. Then I submit to the awful subway of the world....

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

A woman who writes feels too much.

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

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

The sanest thing in this world is love.