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

“Only my books anoint me,”

“Wanting to Die”

“Fee-fi-fo-fum -”

“I am stuffing your mouth with your”

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

“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.”

“I many times thought peace had come,”

“I believe”

“Night”

“Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore,”

“I know you don't think that any tongue I speak is mine; it must be rented. I am always denial, or pretense. A child born mid-flight has no nation. I can pull on either culture, but they always melt like a dream, trickle away, water on the oiled pelt of foreign.”

“Every object, every being,”