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
Famous quotes by anne sexton:
“It is love that walks away
and yet we have terrible mouths
and soft milk hands.
We worry with like.
We walk away like love.
”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“Suppertime I float toward you
from the stewpot
holding poems you shrug off
and you kiss me like a mosquito.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“I have been born many times, a false Messiah,
but let me be born again
into something true.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“Father, I’m thirty-six,
yet I lie here in your crib.
I’m getting born againdam,
as you prod me with your rib.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“I could not see the spring.
I could not hear the spring.
I could not touch the spring.
Once upon a time a young person
died for no reason.
I was the same.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)