627 Quotes by Anne Sexton

Even though I'm often crazy - and I am, and I know it - still I fight it because I know how sterile, how futile, how bleak... nothing grows from it, and you, meanwhile, only grow into it like a snail.

My mother was top billing in our house.

It is love that walks awayand yet we have terrible mouthsand soft milk hands.We worry with like.We walk away like love.

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

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

Nature is full of teeth that come in one by one, then decay, fall out

A starving man doesn't ask what the meal is.

Be careful of words, they can be both daisies and bruises.

Here in front of the summer hotel the beach waits like an altar.