All ANNE SEXTON Quotes about “Diamonds”

“Emerald as heavy as a golf course, ruby as dark as an afterbirth, diamond as white as sun on the sea.”
“Pulling off the fat diamond engagement ring, pulling off the elopement wedding ring, and holding them, clicking them in thumb and forefinger, the indent of twenty-five years, like a tiny rip leaving its mark.”
“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...”

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