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
As for me, I am a watercolor. I wash off.
I am a collection of dismantled almosts.
Perhaps I am no one. True, I have a body and I cannot escape from it. I would like to fly out of my head, but that is out of the question.
It is June. I am tired of being brave.
The sanest thing in this world is love.
Somebody who should have been born is gone.
God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.
But my future is a secret. / It is as shy as a mole.
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.
Letters are false really - they are expressions of the way you wish you were instead of the way you are ...
All who love have lied.
There is rust in my mouth,the stain of an old kiss.
Earth, earthriding your merry-go-roundtoward extinction,right to the rootsthickening the oceans like gravy,festering in your caves,you are becoming a latrine.