Sack Rome

Famous quotes containing the words sack and/or rome:

    “Say the woman is forty-four.
    Say she is five seven-and-a-half.
    Say her hair is stick color.
    Say her eyes are chameleon.
    Would you put her in a sack and bury her,
    suck her down into the dumb dirt?”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

    “I only know how this untimely lust has tossed
    flesh at the wind forever and moved my fears
    toward the intimate Rome of the myth we crossed.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)