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Anne Sexton was an American poet known for her confessional and autobiographical poetry. Her works delved deeply into personal pain, family relationships, and social issues, profoundly influencing 20th-century poetry.

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Famous Anne Sexton Quotes

“We are all writing God's poem.”

Writing God

Author:Anne Sexton

“Craft is a trick you make up to let you write the poem.”

Writing Tricks Crafts

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“It's a little mad, but I believe I am many people. When I am writing a poem, I feel I am the person who should have written it.”

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“All I am is the trick of words writing themselves.”

Writing Tricks

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“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.”

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Book:Words for Dr. Y.: uncollected poems with three stories

Source: Words for Dr. Y.: uncollected poems with three stories

“I'm an empress. I wear an apron. My typewriter writes. It didn't break the way it warned. Even crazy, I'm as nice as a chocolate bar.”

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Book:Selected Poems of Anne Sexton

Source: Selected Poems of Anne Sexton

“I think of myself as writing for one person, that one perfect reader who understands and loves.”

Thinking Writing Persons Perfect Reader And Love

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“I think I've been writing black poems all along, wearing my white mask. I'm always the victim ... but no longer!”

Thinking Writing Black White Victim Mask

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

Knows Inspirational Writing Born

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

Writing Whole Feelings Beautiful Sex

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“A woman who writes feels too much.”

Feels Writing Too Much

Book:Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters

Source: Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters

About the Author

Born: November 9, 1928
Died: October 4, 1974
Known for: Poet
Quotes: 369

Books & Sources

Selected Poems of Anne SextonRelated source material

The Awful Rowing Toward GodRelated source material

Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in LettersRelated source material

Words for Dr. Y.: uncollected poems with three storiesRelated source material

TransformationsRelated source material

45 Mercy StreetRelated source material

Love PoemsRelated source material

The death notebooksRelated source material

Selected poemsRelated source material

Anne Sexton: A Self Portrait in LettersRelated source material

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