“I was only sitting here in my white study with the awful black words pushing me around.”
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Famous Anne Sexton Quotes
“Everyone has left me except my muse, that good nurse. She stays in my hand, a mild white mouse.”
Source: Selected Poems of Anne Sexton
Source: Selected Poems of Anne Sexton
Source: Selected Poems of Anne Sexton
“What a lay me down this is with two pink, two orange, two green, two white goodnights.”
Source: Selected Poems of Anne Sexton
Source: Transformations
Source: Selected poems
“Yet love enters my blood like an I.V., dripping in its little white moments.”
Source: The death notebooks
“One can't build little white picket fences to keep nightmares out.”
Source: Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters