Death's in the good-bye.
Anne Sexton
Even without wars, life is dangerous.
Anne Sexton
God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.
Anne Sexton
God owns heaven but He craves the earth.
Anne Sexton
I am not immortal. Faustus and I are the also-ran.
Anne Sexton
In a dream you are never eighty.
Anne Sexton
It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.
Anne Sexton
Live or die, but don't poison everything.
Anne Sexton
Need is not quite belief.
Anne Sexton
Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.
Anne Sexton
Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.
Anne Sexton
The beautiful feeling after writing a poem is on the whole better even than after sex, and that's saying a lot.
Anne Sexton
The joy that isn't shared dies young.
Anne Sexton
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