Anne Sexton People 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.

Oh thumb, I want a drink it is dark, where are the big people, when will I get there...?

Big heart, wide as a watermelon, but wise as birth, there is so much abundance in the people I have....

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

I'm the crazy one who thinks that words reach people.

I’m lost. And it’s my own fault. It’s about time I figured out that I can’t ask people to keep me found.