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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“Long ago
there was a strange deception:
a wolf dressed in frills,
a kind of transvestite.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“it
was my first doll that water went
into and water came out of much
earlier it was the diaper I wore
and the dirt thereof and my
mother hating me for it”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“When they turn the sun
on again I’ll plant children
under it, I’ll light up my soul
with a match and let it sing....”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“Voice number one says,
‘I am the leaves. I am the martyred.
Come unto me with death for I am the siren.
I am forty young girls in green shells....’”
—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)