What did Anne Sexton mean by: Now, in my middle age, about nineteen in the head I’d say, I am rowing, I am rowing. - Anne Sexton Poet · USA Copy
+ Nature is full of teeth that come in one by one, then decay, fall out. Feraz Zeid, January 9, 2024January 9, 2024, Anne Sexton, Nature, Teeth, 0 - Anne Sexton Poet · USA
+ I’m the crazy one who thinks that words reach people. Feraz Zeid, August 19, 2023December 12, 2023, Anne Sexton, Crazy, 0 - Anne Sexton Poet · USA
+ I think of myself as writing for one person, that one perfect reader who understands and loves. Feraz Zeid, January 9, 2024January 9, 2024, Anne Sexton, Perfect, Writing, 0 - Anne Sexton Poet · USA
+ Take your foot out of the graveyard, they are busy being dead. Feraz Zeid, January 9, 2024January 9, 2024, Anne Sexton, Busy, Feet, Graveyard, 0 - Anne Sexton Poet · USA
+ It doesn’t matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was. Feraz Zeid, January 9, 2024January 9, 2024, Anne Sexton, Daughter, Death, Fathers Day, 0 - Anne Sexton Poet · USA
+ The body is a damn hard thing to kill. Feraz Zeid, November 2, 2023December 26, 2023, Anne Sexton, Body, Damn, Suicidal, 0 - Anne Sexton Poet · USA
+ the marriage twists, holds firm, a sailor’s knot. Feraz Zeid, September 10, 2023December 24, 2023, Anne Sexton, Marriage, Sailor, Twists, 0 - Anne Sexton Poet · USA
+ One of my secret instructions to myself as a poet is “Whatever you do, don’t be boring.” Feraz Zeid, January 9, 2024January 9, 2024, Anne Sexton, Boring, Poet, Secret, 0 - Anne Sexton Poet · USA
We hope to grow old and we dread old age; that is to say, we love life and we flee from death. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
When we are young we lay up for old age; when we are old we save for death. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
The fear of old age disturbs us, yet we are not certain of becoming old. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
Every artist, as child of his age, is impelled to express the spirit of his age. - Wassily Kandinsky Painter · Russia
What makes old age so sad is, not that our joys, but that our hopes then cease. - Jean Paul Writer · Germany
It is not the end of joy that makes old age so sad, but the end of hope. - Jean Paul Writer · Germany
Memory, wit, fancy, acuteness, cannot grow young again in old age, but the heart can. - Jean Paul Writer · Germany
Age seldom arrives smoothly or quickly. It’s more often a succession of jerks. - Jean Rhys Writer · Dominica
