Anne Sexton Quotes About Pain

Quotes about: Pain

• I find now, swallowing one teaspoon of pain, that it drops downward to the past where it mixes with last year’s cupful and downward into a decade’s quart and downward into a lifetime’s ocean. I alternate treading water and deadman’s float.

  Anne Sexton

  Pain, Ocean, Past

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

• I would sell my life to avoid
  the pain that begins in the crib
  with its bars or perhaps
  with your first breath
  when the planets drill
  your future into you.

  Anne Sexton

  Life, Pain, Bars

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

• I brush my hair,
  waiting in the pain machine for my bones to get hard,
  for the soft, soft bones that were laid apart
  and were screwed together. They will knit.
  And the other corpse, the fractured heart,
  I feed it piecemeal, little chalice. I'm good to it.

  Anne Sexton

  Pain, Heart, Hair

  Anne Sexton (1999). “Love Poems”, p.25, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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