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.
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“For God was as large as a sunlamp and laughed his heat at us and therefore we did not cringe at the death hole.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“then take off your flesh,
unpick the lock of your bones.
In other words
take off the wall
that separates you from God.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“Mother,
you and God
float with the same belly
up.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“Husband,
last night I dreamt
they cut off your hands and feet.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“Tommy is three and when he’s bad
his mother dances with him.
She puts on the record,
‘Red Roses for a Blue Lady’
and throws him across the room.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)