Three Quotes in Honor of Anne Sexton’s Birthday

Poet Anne Sexton was born on 9 November 1928.

  • “I am a collection of dismantled almosts.”
  • “Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.”
  • “Writers are such phonies: they sometimes have wise insights but they don’t live by them at all. That’s what writers are like…you think they know something, but usually they are just messes.”

October Round-Up: Eleven Interesting Posts

The Splendiferously Bearded Writers Social Club: Wilkie Collins

  • Name: Wilkie Collins
  • D/O/B: 8 January 1824
  • Member Since: 1871
  • Status: Charter Member
  • Important Role: Director and star of the club’s amateur theatricals
  • Hobbies: Socializing with Charles Dickens; acting; painting
Wilkie Collins by Frederick Waddy, 1872

Wilkie Collins by Frederick Waddy, 1872.