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
What's the point of fighting the dollars when all you need is a warm bed? When the dog barks you let him in. All we need is someone to let us in. And one other thing: to consider the lilies in the field.
I am out of practice at living. You are as brave as a motorcycle.
Sometimes I fly like an eagle but with the wings of a wren
Even without wars, life is dangerous.
Today life opened inside me like an egg ...
So I won't hang around in my hospital shift, repeating The Black Mass and all of it. I say Live, Live because of the sun, the dream, the excitable gift.
life is a trick, life is a kitten in a sack.
My life has appeared unclothed in court, detail by detail, death-bone witness by death-bone witness, and I was shamed at the verdict....
I would sell my life to avoid the pain that begins in the crib with its bars or perhaps with your first breath when the planets drill your future into you....
this is no dream just my oily life where the people are alibis and the street is unfindable for an entire lifetime.
All day I've built a lifetime and now the sun sinks to undo it.
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.
Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.
As for me, I am a watercolor. I wash off.