627 Quotes by Anne Sexton

My faith is a great weight hung on a small wire, as doth the spider hang her baby on a thin web.

Daylight is nobody’s friend. God comes in like a landlord and flashes on his brassy lamp.

Some women marry houses. It’s another kind of skin; it has a heart, a mouth, a liver and bowel movements.

Don’t worry if they say you’re crazy. They said that about me and yet I was saner than all of them. I knew. No matter. You know. Insane or sane, you know. It’s a good thing to know – no matter what they call it.

No matter whose bed you die in the bed will be yours for your voyage onto the surgical andiron of God.

It’s a little mad, but I believe I am many people. When I am writing a poem, I feel I am the person who should have written it.

I’m in pain because the day is ending and somehow I am never healing.

One can’t build little white picket fences to keep nightmares out.

Frog has no nerves. Frog is as old as a cockroach. Frog is my father’s genitals. Frog is a malformed doorknob. Frog is a soft bag of green.