Quotes by Anne Sexton
Quotes 1 till 13 of 13.
1
-
Death's in the good-bye.
-
Even without wars, life is dangerous.
-
God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.
-
God owns heaven but He craves the earth.
-
I am not immortal. Faustus and I are the also-ran.
-
It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.
-
Live or die, but don't poison everything.
-
Need is not quite belief.
-
Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.
-
Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.
-
The beautiful feeling after writing a poem is on the whole better even than after sex, and that's saying a lot.
-
The joy that isn't shared dies young.
-
The sea is mother-death and she is a mighty female, the one who wins, the one who sucks us all up.
1
Subjects in these quotes:
Similar authors
-
Ralph Waldo Emerson
American poet and philosopher 593 -
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
American poet 102 -
Carl Sandburg
American Poet 88 -
Robert Frost
American poet 86 -
Walt Whitman
American poet, essayist, and journalist 73 -
W. H. Auden
American poet 70 -
Bayard Taylor
American poet, travel author, and diplomat 68 -
Ezra Pound
American poet 60
All Anne Sexton famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com 13 found