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Famous Anne Sexton Quotes
Source: Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters
“God went out of me as if the sea dried up like sandpaper, as if the sun became a latrine.”
Source: The Awful Rowing Toward God
Source: The Awful Rowing Toward God
Source: The death notebooks
Source: Selected Poems of Anne Sexton
Source: El Asesino y otros poemas
Source: Words for Dr. Y.: uncollected poems with three stories
“The future is a fog that is still hanging out over the sea, a boat that floats home or does not.”
Source: Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters
Source: The death notebooks
“The sea is mother-death and she is a mighty female, the one who wins, the one who sucks us all up.”
