Anne Sexton Quotes:
Ocupation: Poet
Life: November 9, 1928 - October 4, 1974
Birthday: November 9
Death: October 4
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.
source: Anne Sexton (1976). “45 Mercy Street”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)
topic: Pain, Ocean, Past, Teaspoons, Treading, Treading Water
