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Anne Sexton Quotes about Giving

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Daisies in water are the longest lasting flower you can give to someone. Fact. Buy daisies. Not roses.

Daisies in water are the longest lasting flower you can give to someone. Fact. Buy daisies. Not roses.

Flower, Giving, Water

Anne Sexton (1978). “Words for Dr. Y.: uncollected poems with three stories”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

And if I tried to give you something else, something outside myself, you would not know that the worst of anyone can be, finally, an accident of hope

Giving, Worst, Knows

Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.26, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Today God gives milk / and I have the pail.

God, Giving, Today

Anne Sexton (1975). “The Awful Rowing Toward God”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

Give me your skin as sheer as a cobweb, let me open it up and listen in and scoop out the dark.

Dark, Giving, Skins

Anne Sexton (2001). “Transformations”, p.38, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

There is hope. There is hope everywhere. Today God give milk and I have the pail.

Hope, Snow, Giving

Anne Sexton (1975). “The Awful Rowing Toward God”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

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