Anne Sexton Quotes About Lifetime

Quotes about: Lifetime

• All day I've built a lifetime and now the sun sinks to undo it.

  Anne Sexton

  Sun, Lifetime, Built

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.213, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• 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.

  Anne Sexton

  Pain, Ocean, Past

  Anne Sexton (1976). “45 Mercy Street”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

• this is no dream
  just my oily life
  where the people are alibis
  and the street is unfindable for an
  entire lifetime.

  Anne Sexton

  Life, Dream, Loss

  Anne Sexton (1976). “45 Mercy Street”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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