Most poets are mad. It doesn't qualify us for anything.

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• Anne Sexton:

  Madness is a waste of time. It creates nothing.

• Anne Sexton:

  Even though I'm often crazy - and I am, and I know it - still I fight it because I know how sterile

• Anne Sexton:

  These poets (fans of whatever) should be contacting other young poets on their way - not those who

• Anne Sexton:

  Before I was married, I had never washed one dish or seen how you fried an egg or baking a potato.

• Anne Sexton:

  I was trying my damnedest to lead a conventional life, for that was how I was brought up, and it wa

• Anne Sexton:

  My mother was top billing in our house.

• Anne Sexton:

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

• Anne Sexton:

  Until I was twenty-eight, I had a kind of buried self who didn't know she could do anything but mak

• Anne Sexton:

  I was a victim of the American Dream, the bourgeois, middle-class dream. All I wanted was a little

• Anne Sexton:

  I wrote some serious stuff in high school; however, I hadn't been exposed to any of the major poets