Quotes by Anne Sexton

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