I was trying my damnedest to lead a conventional life, for that was how I was brought up, and it was what my husband wanted of me. But one can’t build little white picket fences to keep nightmares out. Anne Sexton Read Quote
These poets (fans of whatever) should be contacting other young poets on their way – not those who have made it, who sit on a star and then have plenty of problems: usually no money, usually the fear their own writing is going down the sink hole. Anne Sexton Read Quote
The beautiful feeling after writing a poem is on the whole better even than after sex, and that’s saying a lot. Anne Sexton Read Quote
Even though I’m often crazy – and I am, and I know it – still I fight it because I know how sterile, how futile, how bleak… nothing grows from it, and you, meanwhile, only grow into it like a snail. Anne Sexton Read Quote