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Anne Sexton
American
Poet
About the author
God owns heaven but He craves the earth.
Anne Sexton,
American
Poet
#God
#Earth
#Heaven
The beautiful feeling after writing a poem is on the whole better even than after sex, and that's saying a lot.
Anne Sexton,
American
Poet
#Saying
#Feeling
#Writing
#Sex
Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.
Anne Sexton,
American
Poet
#Poets
#Saints
#Moderation
Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.
Anne Sexton,
American
Poet
#Soul
Live or die, but don't poison everything.
Anne Sexton,
American
Poet
#Poison
Need is not quite belief.
Anne Sexton,
American
Poet
#Belief
I am not immortal. Faustus and I are the also-ran.
Anne Sexton,
American
Poet
God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.
Anne Sexton,
American
Poet
#God
#Voice
#Beer
Even without wars, life is dangerous.
Anne Sexton,
American
Poet
#Life
Death's in the good-bye.
Anne Sexton,
American
Poet
#Death
The joy that isn't shared dies young.
Anne Sexton,
American
Poet
#Joy
In a dream you are never eighty.
Anne Sexton,
American
Poet
#Dream
It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.
Anne Sexton,
American
Poet
#Father