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
The little girl skipped by under the wrinkled oak leaves and held fast to a replica of herself.
I am younger each year at the first snow.
Poems aren't postcards to send home.
Fear / a motor, / pumps me around and around / until I fade slowly ...
I keep feeling that there isn't one poem being written by any one of us - or a book or anything like that. The whole life of us writers, the whole product I guess I mean, is the one long poem - a community effort if you will. It's all the same poem. It doesn't belong to any one writer - it's God's poem perhaps. Or God's people's poem.
Poetry to me is prayer ...
It's a little mad, but I believe I am many people. When I am writing a poem, I feel I am the person who should have written it.
psychiatry is a dirty mirror ...
I am not at home in myself. I am my own stranger.
A woman / who loves a woman / is forever young.
[I] have fantasies of killing myself and thus being the powerful one not the powerless one.
the trouble with therapy is that it makes life go backwards ...
Letters are false really - they are expressions of the way you wish you were instead of the way you are ...
But my future is a secret. / It is as shy as a mole.