627 Quotes by Anne Sexton

Now I am going back And I have ripped my hand From your hand as I said I would And I have made it this far...

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

Poetry to me is prayer...

Daisies in water are the longest lasting flower you can give to someone. Fact. Buy daisies. Not roses.

There is joy in all: in the hair I brush each morning, in the Cannon towel, newly washed, that I rub my body with each morning...

My objects dream and wear new costumes, compelled to, it seems, by all the words in my hands and the sea that bangs in my throat.

All day I’ve built a lifetime and now the sun sinks to undo it.

I seem to be a ship that is sailing out of my own life.

Every time I get happy the Nana-hex comes through. Birds turn into plumber’s tools, a sonnet turns into a dirty joke, a wind turns into a tracheotomy, a boat turns into a corpse...