Sexton

Famous quotes containing the word sexton:

    “you come, a brave ghost, to fix
    in my mind without praise
    or paradise
    to make me your inheritor.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “The thirteenth fairy,
    her fingers as long and thin as straws,
    her eyes burnt by cigarettes,
    her uterus an empty teacup,
    arrived with an evil gift.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “Do I not feel the hunger so acutely
    that I would rather die than look
    into its face?”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)