627 Quotes by Anne Sexton

The sea is mother-death and she is a mighty female, the one who wins, the one who sucks us all up.

... man is eating the earth up like a candy bar.

O yellow eye, let me be sick with your heat, let me be feverish and frowning.

After a disaster strikes, it can be very devastating and very challenging. You're going to need a lot of strength and energy, and the American Red Cross suggests you go for the high protein items.

The ground has on its clothes. The trees poke out of sheets and each branch wears the sock of God.

I love the word warm. It is almost unbearable-- so moist and breathlike.

I grow old on my bitterness.

My eyes, those sluts, those whores, would play no more.

There is rust in my mouth,the stain of an old kiss.