Anne Sexton

The joy that isn't shared dies young. ”

I want to be a child and not a mother, and I feel guilty about this. ”

Need is not quite belief. ”

Madness is a waste of time. It creates nothing. ”

Death's in the good-bye. ”

Until I was twenty-eight, I had a kind of buried self who didn't know she could do anything but make white sauce and diaper babies. I didn't know I had any creative depths. ”