Anne Sexton: Living

Anne Sexton was poet from the United States. Explore interesting quotes on living.

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

“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.”

Source: Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters

“Rats live on no evil star”

“Now I am just an elderly lady who is full of spleen,
who humps around greater Boston in a God-awful hat,
who never lived and yet outlived her time,
hating men and dogs and Democrats.”

“How are you? How is your wonderful bathroom? How are the books you read and the things you think? Your dogs and their lives? The weather? Your feelings?”

Source: Anne Sexton: A Self-Portrait in Letters

“The real me lives in words, not in what words mean.”

“Love your self's self where it lives.
There is no special God to refer to; or if there is,
why did I let you grow
in another place. You did not know my voice
when I came back to call. All the superlatives
of tomorrow's white tree and mistletoe
will not help you know the holidays you had to miss.”

"The Double Image"
To Bedlam and Part Way Back (1960)

“I am, each day,
typing out the God
my typewriter believes in.
Very quick. Very intense,
like a wolf at a live heart.”

"Frenzy"
The Awful Rowing Toward God (1975)