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
I would like to bury all the hating eyes under the sand somewhere....
Somebody who should have been born is gone. Yes, woman, such logic will lead to loss without death. Or say what you meant, you coward . . . this baby that I bleed.
For forty days, for forty nights Jesus put one foot in front of the other and the man he carried, if it was a man, became heavier and heavier.
This is what poems are: with mercy for the greedy, they are the tongue's wrangle, the world's pottage, the rat's star.
the trouble with therapy is that it makes life go backwards ...
[I] have fantasies of killing myself and thus being the powerful one not the powerless one.
I think it will be a miracle if I don't someday end up killing myself.
A woman / who loves a woman / is forever young.
psychiatry is a dirty mirror ...
Women tell time by the body. They are like clocks. They are always fastened to the earth, listening for its small animal noises.
women are born twice.
God went out of me as if the sea dried up like sandpaper, as if the sun became a latrine.
My business is words. Words are like labels, or coins, or better, like swarming bees.
I said, the poets are there I hear them singing and lying around their round table and around me still.