This is what poems are:
with mercy
for the greedy,
they are the tongue's wrangle,
the world's pottage, the rat's star.


Selected poems (ed. 1964)

Anne Sexton Quotes

This is what poems are: with mercy for the greedy, they are the tongue's wrangle, the world's pottage, the rat's star.

This is what poems are: with mercy for the greedy, they are the tongue's wrangle, the world's pottage, the rat's star.

This is what poems are: with mercy for the greedy, they are the tongue's wrangle, the world's pottage, the rat's star.

This is what poems are: with mercy for the greedy, they are the tongue's wrangle, the world's pottage, the rat's star.