Anne Sexton Book Quotations

I keep feeling that there isn't one poem being written by any one of us - or a book or anything like that. The whole life of us writers, the whole product I guess I mean, is the one long poem - a community effort if you will. It's all the same poem. It doesn't belong to any one writer - it's God's poem perhaps. Or God's people's poem.

I hoard books. They are people who do not leave.

Only my books anoint me, and a few friends, those who reach into my veins.