Anne Sexton
Anne Sexton
Anne Sextonwas an American poet, known for her highly personal, confessional verse. She won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1967 for her book Live or Die. Themes of her poetry include her long battle against depression and mania, suicidal tendencies, and various intimate details from her private life, including her relationships with her husband and children...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth9 November 1928
CityNewton, MA
CountryUnited States of America
Give me your skin as sheer as a cobweb, let me open it up and listen in and scoop out the dark.
Love your self's self where it lives.
Well, one gets out of bed and the planets don't always hiss or muck up the day, each day.
Yes I try to kill myself in small amounts, an innocuous occupation. Actually I'm hung up on it.
I am teaching...It's kind of like having a love affair with a rhinoceros.
Some women marry houses. It's another kind of skin; it has a heart, a mouth, a liver and bowel movements.
Death's in the good-bye.
Thief!- how did you crawl into, crawl down alone into the death I wanted so badly and for so long ...
The body is a damn hard thing to kill.
It was as if a morning-glory had bloomed in her throat, and all that blue and small pollen ate into my heart, violent and religious
Frog has no nerves. Frog is as old as a cockroach. Frog is my father's genitals. Frog is a malformed doorknob. Frog is a soft bag of green.
Man is a bird full of mud, I say aloud. And death looks on with a casual eye and scratches his anus.
Rejoice with the day lily for it is born for a day to live by the mailbox and glorify the roadside
And within the house ashes are being stuffed into my marriage, fury is lapping the walls, dishes crack on the shelves, a strangler needs my throat, the daughter has ceased to eat anything....