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
All I wanted was a little piece of life, to be married, to have children.... I was trying my damnedest to lead a conventional life, for that was how I was brought up, and it was what my husband wanted of me. But one can't build little white picket fences to keep the nightmares out.
Now I am going back And I have ripped my hand From your hand as I said I would And I have made it this far ...
I cannot walk an inch / without trying to walk to God.
But my future is a secret. / It is as shy as a mole.
sorrow is easier than guilt.
I would like a simple life / yet all night I am laying / poems away in a long box.
Be careful of words, / ... they can be both daisies and bruises.
To be without God is to be a snake / who wants to swallow an elephant.
Letters are false really - they are expressions of the way you wish you were instead of the way you are ...
In a letter (no matter how quickly it is written or honestly or freely or lovingly) it is more possible to be loving and lovable, more possible to reach out and to take in ... I feel I have somehow deceived you into thinking this is really a human relationship. It is a letter relationship between humans ...
Today God gives milk / and I have the pail.
They [daisies] are my favorite flower. There is something innocent and vulnerable about them as if they thanked you for admiring them.
Mood can be as important as sense.
I was spread out dailyand examined for flaws.