Anne Sexton Quotes

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Anne Sexton

Profession : Poet

Birth : November 9, 1928

My mother was top billing in our house.

Anne Sexton

Need is not quite belief.

Anne Sexton

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

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