Anne Sexton Quotes About Eating

Quotes about: Eating

• The boys and girls are one tonight. They unbutton blouses. They unzip flies. They take off shoes. They turn off the light. The glimmering creatures are full of lies. They are eating each other. They are overfed. At night, alone, I marry the bed.

  Anne Sexton

  Girl, Lying, Boys

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.137, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• If I could blame it on all the mothers and fathers of the world, they of the lessons, the pellets of power, they of the love surrounding you like batter ... Blame it on God perhaps? He of the first opening that pushed us all into our first mistakes? No, I'll blame it on Man For Man is God and man is eating the earth up like a candy bar and not one of them can be left alone with the ocean for it is known he will gulp it all down. The stars (possibly) are safe. At least for the moment. The stars are pears that no one can reach, even for a wedding. Perhaps for a death.

  Anne Sexton

  Mother, Stars, Father

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

• ... man is eating the earth up like a candy bar.

  Anne Sexton

  Men, Bars, Earth

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

• Come, my pretender, my fritter,
  my bubbler, my chicken biddy!
  Oh succulent one,
  it is but one turn in the road
  and I would be a cannibal!

  Anne Sexton

  Would Be, Eating, Chickens

• I remember the stink of the liverwurst.
  How I was put on a platter and laid
  between the mayonnaise and the bacon.
  The rhythm of the refrigerator
  had been disturbed.

  Anne Sexton

  Mayonnaise, Remember, Eating

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.205, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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