Anne Sexton, The Complete Poems
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Quotes by Anne Sexton, The Complete Poems
"Put your mouthful of words away and come with me to watch the lilies open in such a field, growing there like yachts, slowly steering their petals without nurses or clocks."
"I find now, swallowing one teaspoon of pain, that it drops downward to the past where it mixes with last year’s cupful and downward into a decade’s quart and downward into a lifetime’s ocean. I alternate treading water and deadman’s float."
"No. Not really red,but the color of a rose when it bleeds."