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 have come back
but disorder is not what it was.
I have lost the trick of it!
The innocence of it!”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“Yet love enters my blood like an I.V.,
dripping in its little white moments.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“Where and to whom
you are married I can only guess
in my piecemeal fashion. I grow old on my bitterness.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“So this is happiness,
that journeyman.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“you are a
gallon drum. Beside you I feel
like a little girl with a papa
who is screaming.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)