Anne Sexton
Anne Sexton
Anne Sextonwas an American poet, known for her highly personal, confessional verse. She won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1967 for her book Live or Die. Themes of her poetry include her long battle against depression and mania, suicidal tendencies, and various intimate details from her private life, including her relationships with her husband and children...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth9 November 1928
CityNewton, MA
CountryUnited States of America
There is a good look that I wear like a blood clot. I have sewn it over my left breast. I have made a vocation of it.
Big heart, wide as a watermelon, but wise as birth, there is so much abundance in the people I have....
the heart, this child of myself that resides in the flesh, this ultimate signature of the me, the start of my blindness and sleep, builds a death crèche.
It is a dead heart. It is inside of me. It is a stranger yet once it was agreeable, opening and closing like a clam.
Maybe, although my heart is a kitten of butter, I am blowing it up like a zeppelin.
I have forgiven all the old actors for dying. A new one comes on with the same lines, like large white growths, in his mouth. The dancers come on from the wings, perfectly mated.
When I lie down to love, old dwarf heart shakes her head. Like an imbecile she was born old.
Inside many of us is a small old man who wants to get out.
There is joy in all: in the hair I brush each morning, in the Cannon towel, newly washed, that I rub my body with each morning....
I see myself as one would see another. I have been cut in two.
I'm an empress. I wear an apron. My typewriter writes. It didn't break the way it warned. Even crazy, I'm as nice as a chocolate bar.
Let there be a heaven so that man may outlive his grasses.
Once upon a time we were all born, popped out like jelly rolls forgetting our fishdom, the pleasuring seas, the country of comfort, spanked into the oxygens of death....
Of course the New Testament is very small. Its mouth opens four times as out-of-date as a prehistoric monster, yet somehow man-made....