627 Quotes by Anne Sexton

Only in this hoarded span will love persevere.

I never seemed to like the spring for what it was; I always loved it for what it might have been. In the head. In the heart of hearts. It is in my ability, I think, to love something fully only if I am naturally, compulsively, irrationally drawn to it.

Just once I knew what life was for.

It was also my violent heart that broke.

Personally I’d give ten thousand bucks to be a psychiatrist and not a writer.

As they say in the movies, I got here the hard way, with no education and no dough, and whatever I am I am because I wrote it.

I didn’t feel at home in life.

Live or die, but don’t poison everything.

I was a victim of the American Dream, the bourgeois, middle-class dream. All I wanted was a little piece of life, to be married, to have children.