“I would like a simple life / yet all night I am laying / poems away in a long box.”
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Famous Anne Sexton Quotes
“Images are the heart of poetry ... You're not a poet without imagery.”
Source: Selected Poems of Anne Sexton
Source: Words for Dr. Y.: uncollected poems with three stories
“I was only sitting here in my white study with the awful black words pushing me around.”
“My business is words. Words are like labels, or coins, or better, like swarming bees.”
Source: Selected Poems of Anne Sexton
Source: The Awful Rowing Toward God
Source: Selected Poems of Anne Sexton
“One of my secret instructions to myself as a poet is "Whatever you do, don't be boring."”
“Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.”
Source: The Awful Rowing Toward God