The place I live in is a kind of maze and I keep seeking the exit or the home. Anne Sexton More Quotes by Anne Sexton More Quotes From Anne Sexton Let the light be called Day so that men may grow corn or take busses. Anne Sexton light may men The ground has on its clothes. The trees poke out of sheets and each branch wears the sock of God. Anne Sexton clothes winter snow Inside many of us Anne Sexton age want men There is joy Anne Sexton hair joy morning Love your self's self where it lives. Anne Sexton acceptance self love I'm an empress. Anne Sexton crazy nice writing I am your dwarf. I am the enemy within. I am the boss of your dreams. See. Your hand shakes. It is not palsy or booze. It is your Doppelganger trying to get out. Beware...Beware... Anne Sexton dwarves dream hands The body is a damn hard thing to kill. Anne Sexton suicidal damn body I see myself as one would see another. Anne Sexton mental-illness cutting two When I lie down to love, Anne Sexton dwarves heart lying I was Anne Sexton coffins connections girl Live or die, but don't poison everything. Anne Sexton live die everything poison I am not immortal. Faustus and I are the also-ran. Anne Sexton am i-am immortal Most poets are mad. It doesn't qualify us for anything. Anne Sexton us anything most mad Madness is a waste of time. It creates nothing. Anne Sexton nothing waste madness time 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 i-am fight you crazy 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. Anne Sexton problems money fear way Before I was married, I had never washed one dish or seen how you fried an egg or baking a potato. Anne Sexton egg never you baking 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 me husband white life My mother was top billing in our house. Anne Sexton our top mother house