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
I’m lost. And it’s my own fault. It’s about time I figured out that I can’t ask people to keep me found.
Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.
I am a collection of dismantled almosts.
The snow has quietness in it; no songs, no smells, no shouts or traffic. When I speak my own voice shocks me.
Take a woman talking, purging herself with rhymes, drumming words out like a typewriter, planting words in you like grass seed. You'll move off.
Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.
As it has been said: Love and a cough cannot be concealed. Even a small cough. Even a small love.
I am not immortal. Faustus and I are the also-ran.
As for me, I am a watercolor. I wash off.
Perhaps I am no one. True, I have a body and I cannot escape from it. I would like to fly out of my head, but that is out of the question.