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I am not at home in myself. I am my own stranger.

I am not at home in myself. I am my own stranger.

Anne Sexton

Home, Self, Stranger

Anne Sexton, Linda Gray Sexton, Lois Ames (2004). “Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters”, p.239, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

The future is a fog that is still hanging out over the sea, a boat that floats home or does not.

Anne Sexton

Home, Fog, Sea

Anne Sexton, Linda Gray Sexton, Lois Ames (2004). “Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters”, p.41, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Poems aren't postcards to send home.

Anne Sexton

Home, Postcards

The place I live in is a kind of maze and I keep seeking the exit or the home.

Anne Sexton

Home, Mazes, Exit

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

Home is my Bethlehem, my succoring shelter, my mental hospital, my wife, my dam, my husband, my sir, my womb, my skull.

Anne Sexton

Husband, Home, Skulls

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

I leave you, home, when I'm ripped from the doorstep by commerce or fate. Then I submit to the awful subway of the world.

Anne Sexton

Home, Fate, World

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

The future is a fog that is still hanging out over the sea, a boat that floats home or does not. The trade winds blow me, and I do not know where the land is; the waves fold over each other; they are in love with themselves; sleeping in their own skin; and I float over them and I do not know about tomorrow.

Anne Sexton

Future, Sleep, Home

Anne Sexton, Linda Gray Sexton, Lois Ames (2004). “Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters”, p.41, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I am tearing the feathers out of the pillows, waiting, waiting for Daddy to come home and stuff me so full of our infected child that I turn invisible, but married, at last.

Anne Sexton

Marriage, Children, Home

Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.254, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt