“Abundance is scooped from abundance yet abundance remains.”
Source: The Awful Rowing Toward God
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Famous Anne Sexton Quotes
Source: 45 Mercy Street
“It is June. I am tired of being brave.”
Source: Selected Poems of Anne Sexton
“One can't build little white picket fences to keep nightmares out.”
“Somebody who should have been born is gone.”
Source: Selected Poems of Anne Sexton
Source: Selected poems
“I've grown tired of love You are the trouble with me I watch you walk right by”
Source: Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters
“I am in my own mind. I am locked in the wrong house.”
Source: Selected Poems of Anne Sexton
Source: Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters
Source: Selected Poems of Anne Sexton
“I hoard books. They are people who do not leave.”
Source: Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters
“The sea is mother-death and she is a mighty female, the one who wins, the one who sucks us all up.”
“A woman who writes feels too much.”
Source: Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters
“... man is eating the earth up like a candy bar.”
Source: The Awful Rowing Toward God
“... a starving man doesn't ask what the meal is.”
Source: The Awful Rowing Toward God
“O yellow eye, let me be sick with your heat, let me be feverish and frowning.”