Anne Sexton

God owns heaven but He craves the earth. ”

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. ”

I wrote some serious stuff in high school; however, I hadn't been exposed to any of the major poets, not even the minor ones... I read nothing but Sara Teasdale. ”

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

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

Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard. ”

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. ”

Even without wars, life is dangerous. ”

I was a victim of the American Dream, the bourgeois, middle-class dream. All I wanted was a little piece of life, to be married, to have children. ”

In a dream you are never eighty. ”