Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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I remember the stink of the liverwurst. How I was put on a platter and laid between the mayonnaise and the bacon. The rhythm of the refrigerator had been disturbed.

Anne Sexton's Popular Quotes

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.

- Anne Sexton

As it has been said: Love and a cough cannot be concealed. Even a small cough. Even a small love.

- Anne Sexton

I am crazy as hell, but I know it. And knowing it is a kind of sanity that makes the sickness worse.

- Anne Sexton

Meanwhile in my head, I’m undergoing open-heart surgery.

- Anne Sexton

Sometimes the soul takes pictures of things it has wished for, but never seen.

- Anne Sexton

I am alone here in my own mind. There is no map and there is no road. It is one of a kind just as yours is.

- Anne Sexton

Maybe I am becoming a hermit, opening the door for only a few special animals? Maybe my skull is too crowded and it has no opening through which to f…

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Be careful of words, / ... they can be both daisies and bruises.

- Anne Sexton

I'll Vacuum up my stale hair, I'll pay all my neighbors' bad debts, I'll write a poem called Yellow and put my lips down to drink it up.

- Anne Sexton