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
Love? Be it man. Be it woman. It must be a wave you want to glide in on, give your body to it, give your laugh to it, give, when the gravelly sand takes you, your tears to the land. To love another is something like prayer and can't be planned, you just fall into its arms because your belief undoes your disbelief.
Cinderella and the prince lived, they say, happily ever after, like two dolls in a museum case never bothered by diapers or dust, never arguing over the timing of an egg, never telling the same story twice....
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.