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Anne Sexton Quotes

List of quotations and sayings by the american poet Anne Sexton on topics like female, wins, sucks

  • The joy that isn't shared dies young.

    — Anne Sexton on generosity
    5
  • God owns heaven but He craves the earth.

    — Anne Sexton on world
    3
  • I am not immortal. Faustus and I are the also-ran.

    — Anne Sexton on immortal
    3
  • It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.

    — Anne Sexton on father
    2
  • Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.

    — Anne Sexton on close
    2
  • The sea is mother-death and she is a mighty female, the one who wins, the one who sucks us all up.

    — Anne Sexton on oceans
    2
  • O yellow eye,let me be sick with your heat,let me be feverish and frowning.

    — Anne Sexton on sunshine
    2
  • As it has been said: Love and a cough cannot be concealed.

    Even a small cough. Even a small love.

    — Anne Sexton on poetry
    2
  • Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.

    — Anne Sexton on exuberance
    1
  • I am God, la de dah.

    — Anne Sexton on confessional
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  • In a dream you are never eighty.

    — Anne Sexton on dream
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  • The house of my body has spoken often as you rebuild me like blocks, and promise to come visit when I'm finally adjusted on safe land, and am livable, joist to joist with storm windows and screens ...

    — Anne Sexton on age
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