Anne Sexton Quotes About Flowers

Quotes about: Flowers

• I raise my pelvis to God
  so that it may know the truth of how
  flowers smash through the long winter.

  Anne Sexton

  Faith, Sex, Flower

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

• They [daisies] are my favorite flower. There is something innocent and vulnerable about them as if they thanked you for admiring them.

  Anne Sexton

  Flower, Vulnerable, Innocent

  Anne Sexton, Linda Gray Sexton, Lois Ames (2004). “Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters”, p.374, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• I did not know the woman I would be
  nor that blood would bloom in me
  each month like an exotic flower,
  nor that children,
  two monuments,
  would break from between my legs.

  Anne Sexton

  Children, Growing Up, Flower

• Daisies in water are the longest lasting
  flower you can give to someone.
  Fact.
  Buy daisies.
  Not roses.

  Anne Sexton

  Flower, Giving, Water

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

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