Anne Sexton Quotes About Mothers

Quotes about: Mothers

• The sea is mother-death and she is a mighty female, the one who wins, the one who sucks us all up.

  Anne Sexton

  Mother, Winning, Sea

• 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

• 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

• Oh sharp diamond, my mother!
  I could not count the cost
  of all your faces, your moods
  that present that I lost.
  Sweet girl, my deathbed,
  my jewel-fingered lady...

  Anne Sexton

  Girl, Mother, Sweet

  Anne Sexton, “Christmas Eve”

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