627 Quotes by Anne Sexton

I do have that bad habit, so female, of taking people at their word.

Your hands found me like an architect.

Dead drunk is the term I think of, insensible, neither cool nor warm, without a head or a foot. To be drunk is to be intimate with a fool.

She owns her own hunger.

I am going to lose myself – or else, the chance is that poetry will save me.

The great theme we all share is that of becoming ourselves, of overcoming our father and mother, of assuming our identities somehow.

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...

I can only sign over everything, the house, the dog, the ladders, the jewels, the soul, the family tree, the mailbox. Then I can sleep. Maybe.

Death’s in the good-bye.