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

Anne Sexton

"The Poet's Story," January 1, 1972 entry
A Small Journal (1974)

“Live or die, but don't poison everything.”

Anne Sexton

“That’s what I do: I make coffee and occasionally succumb to suicidal nihilism. But you shouldn’t worry — poetry is still first. Cigarettes and alcohol follow”

Anne Sexton

“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.”

Anne Sexton

“I am stuffing your mouth with your
promises and watching
you vomit them out upon my face.”

Anne Sexton

"Killing the Love"
45 Mercy Street (1976)
Source: The Complete Poems

“Even so, I must admire your skill.
You are so gracefully insane.”

Anne Sexton

"Elegy in the Classroom"
Referring to Robert Lowell
To Bedlam and Part Way Back (1960)
Variant: Even so, I must admire your skill.
You are so gracefully insane.

“Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.”

Anne Sexton

“Suicide is, after all, the opposite of the poem.”

Anne Sexton

“And we are magic talking to itself,
noisy and alone. I am queen of all my sins
forgotten. Am I still lost?
Once I was beautiful. Now I am myself”

Anne Sexton

Source: To Bedlam and Part Way Back

“Writers are such phonies: they sometimes have wise insights but they don't live by them at all. That's what writers are like… you think they know something, but usually they are just messes.”

Anne Sexton

Source: Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters

“God owns heaven but He craves the earth.”

Anne Sexton

“Take your foot out of the graveyard,
they are busy being dead.”

Anne Sexton

Source: The Complete Poems