Anne Sexton Quotes

As it has been said: Love and a cough cannot be concealed. Even a small cough. Even a small love.

Watch out for intellect,because it knows so much it knows nothingand leaves you hanging upside down,mouthing knowledge as your heartfalls out of your mouth.

Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.

I am alone here in my own mind. There is no map and there is no road. It is one of a kind just as yours is.

I am a collection of dismantled almosts.

Live or die, but don't poison everything.

Love? Be it man. Be it woman. It must be a wave you want to glide in on, give your body to it, give your laugh to it, give, when the gravelly sand takes you, your tears to the land. To love another is something like prayer and can't be planned, you just fall into its arms because your belief undoes your disbelief.

Meanwhile in my head, I’m undergoing open-heart surgery.

I’m lost. And it’s my own fault. It’s about time I figured out that I can’t ask people to keep me found.

All I wanted was a little piece of life, to be married, to have children.... I was trying my damnedest to lead a conventional life, for that was how I was brought up, and it was what my husband wanted of me. But one can't build little white picket fences to keep the nightmares out.