Famous Anne Sexton Quotes

  • Fee-fi-fo-fum, now I’m borrowed, now I’m numb. – Anne Sexton

    Fee-fi-fo-fum, now I’m borrowed, now I’m numb.– Anne Sexton

  • Clover[‘s] eyes are full of language. – Anne Sexton

    Clover[‘s] eyes are full of language.– Anne Sexton

  • It is snowing and death bugs meas stubborn as insomnia. – Anne Sexton

    It is snowing and death bugs meas stubborn as insomnia.– Anne Sexton

  • No. Not really red,but the color of a rose when it bleeds. – Anne Sexton

    No. Not really red,but the color of a rose when it bleeds.– Anne Sexton

  • Give me your skin as sheer as a cobweb, let me open it up and listen in and scoop out the dark. – Anne Sexton

    Give me your skin as sheer as a cobweb, let me open it up and listen in and scoop out the dark.– Anne Sexton

  • Depression is boring, I thinkand I would do better to makesome soup and light up the cave. – Anne Sexton

    Depression is boring, I thinkand I would do better to makesome soup and light up the cave.– Anne Sexton

  • I’d won the worldbut like aforsaken explorer,I’d lostmy map. – Anne Sexton

    I’d won the worldbut like aforsaken explorer,I’d lostmy map.– Anne Sexton

  • The rest of my room is book shelves. I hoard books. They are people who do not leave. – Anne Sexton

    The rest of my room is book shelves. I hoard books. They are people who do not leave.– Anne Sexton

  • Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard. – Anne Sexton

    Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.– Anne Sexton