Anne Sexton Quotes About Childhood

Quotes about: Childhood

• Why are all these dolls falling out of the sky?
  Was there a father?
  Or have the planets cut holes in their nets
  and let our childhood out,
  or are we the dolls themselves,
  born but never fed?

  Anne Sexton

  Father, Fall, Cutting

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

• Oh thumb,
  I want a drink
  it is dark,
  where are the big people,
  when will I get there...?

  Anne Sexton

  Dark, People, Childhood

  Anne Sexton (1974). “The death notebooks”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

• it
  was my first doll that water went
  into and water came out of much
  earlier it was the diaper I wore
  and the dirt thereof and my
  mother hating me for it

  Anne Sexton

  Mother, Hate, Water

• At six
  I lived in a graveyard full of dolls,
  avoiding myself,
  my body, the suspect
  in its grotesque house.

  Anne Sexton

  House, Childhood, Dolls

• bike downtown, stick out tongues at the Catholics.
  Or form a Piss Club where we all go
  in the bushes and peek at each other's sex.

  Anne Sexton

  Sex, Games, Childhood

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

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