Poetry Quote by Anne Sexton — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Fee-fi-fo-fum -”

“As it has been said:”

“Live or die, but don't poison everything.”

“I am stuffing your mouth with your”

“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”

“Those moments before a poem comes, when the heightened awareness comes over you, and you realize a poem is buried there somewhere, you prepare yourself. I run around, you know, kind of skipping around the house, marvelous elation. It’s as though I could fly.”

“The secret to life is to live as though you know the secret.”

“I miss you, mourn for you, and walk the streets alone- often at night, beside, I fall asleep in tears, for your dear face, yet not one word comes back to me. If it is finished, tell me, and I will raise the lid to my box of Phantoms, and lay one more love in; but if it lives and beats still, still lives and beats for me, then say so, and I will strike the strings to one more strain of happiness before I die.”

“I am sore wounded but not slain”

“I'm pretty lost in becoming all this frost. Bitter, like Winter. Strung-out like a string of pearls.”

“به خدا حافظی تلخ توسوگند نشد”

“What is a woman that you forsake her”