Anne Sexton Quotes About Desire

Quotes about: Desire

• I’ll put it out there: I am scarred by the nostalgic indicipherability of my own desires; I an engulfed by the intimidating unknown, pushed through darkness and dragged down by the irretrievable past sweetness of my memories.

  Anne Sexton

  Memories, Past, Darkness

• You must be a poet,
  a lady of evil luck
  desiring to be what you are not,
  longing to be
  what you can only visit.

  Anne Sexton

  Evil, Poetry, Luck

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

• To die whole,
  riddled with nothing
  but desire for it,
  is like breakfast
  after love.

  Anne Sexton

  Desire, Satisfaction, Breakfast

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

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