Anne Sexton Quotes

We were fair game but we have kept out of the cesspool. We are strong. We are the good ones. Do not discover us for we lie together all in green like pond weeds. Hold me, my young dear, hold me.

I’d won the worldbut like aforsaken explorer,I’d lostmy map.

Poetry led me by the hand out of madness.

Some women marry houses.

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