Anne Sexton (November 9, 1928, Newton, Massachusetts – October 4, 1974, Weston, Massachusetts) was an American poet, known for her highly personal, confessional verse. She won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1967. Themes of her poetry include her suicidal tendencies, long battle against depression and various intimate details from her private life, including her relationships with her husband and children.
Read more about Anne Sexton: Early Life and Family, Poetry, Death, Content and Themes of Work, Subsequent Controversy
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“Come, my pretender, my fritter,
my bubbler, my chicken biddy!
Oh succulent one,
it is but one turn in the road
and I would be a cannibal!”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“God has a brown voice,
as soft and full as beer.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“Your apple face, the simple crèche
Of your arms, the August smells
Of your skin. Then I sorted your clothes
And the loves you had left, Elizabeth,
Elizabeth, until you were gone.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“Words for it crawl in and out of me
like worms. I do not like them.
And yet my heart thumps like applause.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“Someone little lives under a bush
pressing an empty Coca-Cola can against
his starving bloated stomach,
I know that much.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)