Anne Sexton

The joy that isn't shared dies young.

As for me, I am a watercolor. I wash off.

I try to take care_x000D_ and be gentle to them._x000D_ Words and eggs must be handled with care._x000D_ Once broken they are impossible things to repair.

As a writer one has to take the chance on being a fool.

The beautiful feeling after writing a poem is on the whole better even than after sex, and that's saying a lot.

Some women marry houses. It's another kind of skin; it has a heart, a mouth, a liver and bowel movements.

In a dream you are never eighty.

Talk to me about sadness. I talk about it too much in my own head but I never mind others talking about it either; I occasionally feel like I tremendously need others to talk about it as well.

The windows, the starving windows that drive the trees like nails into my heart.

I rot on the wall, my own Dorian Gray.

I’m lost. And it’s my own fault. It’s about time I figured out that I can’t ask people to keep me found.

Don’t worry if they say you’re crazy. They said that about me and yet I was saner than all of them. I knew. No matter. You know. Insane or sane, you know. It’s a good thing to know - no matter what they call it.

When I'm writing, I know I'm doing the thing I was born to do.

I lay there silently, hoarding my small dignity. I did not ask about the gate or the closet. I did not question the bedtime ritual where, on the cold bathroom tiles, I was spread out daily and examined for flaws. I did not know that my bones, those solids, those pieces of sculpture would not splinter.

Look to your heart that flutters in and out like a moth. God is not indifferent to your need. You have a thousand prayers but God has one.

Yesterday I did not want to be borrowed but this is the typewriter that sits before me and love is where yesterday is at.

being sixteen in the pants I died full of questions

All day I've built a lifetime and now the sun sinks to undo it.

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

O starry night, This is how I want to die