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
In a letter (no matter how quickly it is written or honestly or freely or lovingly) it is more possible to be loving and lovable, more possible to reach out and to take in ... I feel I have somehow deceived you into thinking this is really a human relationship. It is a letter relationship between humans ...
Mood can be as important as sense.
They [daisies] are my favorite flower. There is something innocent and vulnerable about them as if they thanked you for admiring them.
Images are the heart of poetry ... You're not a poet without imagery.
I cannot walk an inch / without trying to walk to God.
To be without God is to be a snake / who wants to swallow an elephant.
sorrow is easier than guilt.
Be careful of words, / ... they can be both daisies and bruises.
Women tell time by the body. They are like clocks. They are always fastened to the earth, listening for its small animal noises.
Fee-fi-fo-fum - Now I'm borrowed. Now I'm numb.
Some women marry houses. It's another kind of skin; it has a heart, a mouth, a liver and bowel movements.
I'm hunting for the truth. It might be a kind of poetic truth, and not just a factual one, because behind everything that happens to you, there is another truth, a secret life.
The beautiful feeling after writing a poem is on the whole better even than after sex, and that's saying a lot.
The body is a damn hard thing to kill.