Anne Sexton Quotes About Home

Quotes about: Home

• I leave you, home,
  when I'm ripped from the doorstep
  by commerce or fate. Then I submit
  to the awful subway of the world.

  Anne Sexton

  Home, Fate, World

  Anne Sexton (1978). “Words for Dr. Y.: uncollected poems with three stories”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

• Poems aren't postcards to send home.

  Anne Sexton

  Home, Postcards

• The place I live in is a kind of maze and I keep seeking the exit or the home.

  Anne Sexton

  Home, Mazes, Exit

  Anne Sexton (1975). “The Awful Rowing Toward God”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

• The future is a fog that is still hanging out over the sea, a boat that floats home or does not.

  Anne Sexton

  Home, Fog, Sea

  Anne Sexton, Linda Gray Sexton, Lois Ames (2004). “Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters”, p.41, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• The future is a fog that is still hanging out over the sea, a boat that floats home or does not. The trade winds blow me, and I do not know where the land is; the waves fold over each other; they are in love with themselves; sleeping in their own skin; and I float over them and I do not know about tomorrow.

  Anne Sexton

  Future, Sleep, Home

  Anne Sexton, Linda Gray Sexton, Lois Ames (2004). “Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters”, p.41, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• I am not at home in myself. I am my own stranger.

  Anne Sexton

  Home, Self, Stranger

  Anne Sexton, Linda Gray Sexton, Lois Ames (2004). “Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters”, p.239, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• Home is my Bethlehem,
  my succoring shelter,
  my mental hospital,
  my wife, my dam,
  my husband, my sir,
  my womb, my skull.

  Anne Sexton

  Husband, Home, Skulls

  Anne Sexton (1978). “Words for Dr. Y.: uncollected poems with three stories”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

• I am tearing the feathers out of the pillows,
  waiting, waiting for Daddy to come home
  and stuff me so full of our infected child
  that I turn invisible, but married,
  at last.

  Anne Sexton

  Marriage, Children, Home

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.254, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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