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Madness is a waste of time. It creates nothing.
- Anne Sexton
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#Madness
#Nothing
#Time
#Waste
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.
- Anne Sexton
#Know
#Sauce
#Self
#She
#White
Live or die, but don't poison everything.
- Anne Sexton
#Die
#Everything
#Live
#Poison
Even though I'm often crazy - and I am, and I know it - still I fight it because I know how sterile, how futile, how bleak... nothing grows from it, and you, meanwhile, only grow into it like a snail.
- Anne Sexton
#Crazy
#Fight
#Grow
#I Am
#Nothing
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.
- Anne Sexton
#High School
#Nothing
#School
#Serious
I said to my doctor at the beginning, 'I'm no good; I can't do anything. I'm dumb.' He suggested I try educating myself by listening to Boston's educational TV station. He said I had a perfectly good mind.
- Anne Sexton
#Doctor
#Dumb
#Good
#Mind
#Myself
In a dream you are never eighty.
- Anne Sexton
#Dream
#Eighty
#Never
#You
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.
- Anne Sexton
#American Dream
#American
#Children
#Life
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.
- Anne Sexton
#Lead
#Life
#Me
#Trying
#White
The joy that isn't shared dies young.
- Anne Sexton
#Dies
#Joy
#Shared
#Young
God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.
- Anne Sexton
#Beer
#Brown
#God
#Soft
#Voice
Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.
- Anne Sexton
#Exuberance
#Just
#Moderation
#Saints
Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.
- Anne Sexton
#Close
#Down
#Hard
#Soul
#Your
Death's in the good-bye.
- Anne Sexton
#Death
#Good-Bye
It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.
- Anne Sexton
#Father's Day
#Father
#Matter
#Remember
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