Anne Sexton Biography

Anne Sexton, Poet

Occup.	Poet
From	USA
Born	November 9, 1928 Newton, Massachusetts, United States
Died	October 4, 1974 Weston, Massachusetts, United States
Aged	45 years

Anne Sexton was an influential American poet and writer known for her very personal poetry. She won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1967. One of the themes in her poems is depression. After several attempts at suicide, she took her own life in 1974.

Our collection contains 13 quotes who is written / told by Anne, under the main topic Death.

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13 Famous quotes by Anne Sexton

"Death's in the good-bye"

"Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard"

"In a dream you are never eighty"

"The joy that isn't shared dies young"

"God owns heaven but He craves the earth"

"God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer"

"Even without wars, life is dangerous"

"Live or die, but don't poison everything"

"Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance"

"Need is not quite belief"

"It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was"

"The beautiful feeling after writing a poem is on the whole better even than after sex, and that's saying a lot"

"I am not immortal. Faustus and I are the also-ran"