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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“I stir my martinis with the screw,
four-inch and stainless steel,
and think of my hip where it lay
for four years like a darkness.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“All in all, I’d say,
the world is strangling.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“I have sung all night
for the mouths that float back later,
one by one,
holding a lady’s wornout shoe.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“we are the circle of the crazy ladies
who sit in the lounge of the mental house
and smile at the smiling woman
who passes us each a bell,”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“I raise my pelvis to God
so that it may know the truth of how
flowers smash through the long winter.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)