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
Blue eyes wash off sometimes.
Here in the hospital, I say,that is not my body, not my body.I am not here for the doctorsto read like a recipe.
This is what poems are: with mercy for the greedy, they are the tongue's wrangle, the world's pottage, the rat's star.
I burn the way money burns.
The grass as bristly and stout as chives and me wondering when the ground will break and me wondering how anything fragile survives
the man inside of woman ties a knot so that they will never again be separate…
I am stuffing your mouth with your promises and watching you vomit them out upon my face.
Take your foot out of the graveyard, they are busy being dead.
O starry night, This is how I want to die
I must always forget how one word is able to pick out another, to manner another, until I have got something I might have said... but did not.
Sometimes I fly like an eagle but with the wings of a wren
And what of the dead? They lie without shoes in the stone boats. They are more like stone than the sea would be if it stopped. They refuse to be blessed, throat, eye and knucklebone.
Everyone in me is a bird I am beating all my wings
Even without wars, life is dangerous.