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
... a starving man doesn't ask what the meal is.
... man is eating the earth up like a candy bar.
the man inside of woman ties a knot so that they will never again be separate…
I have been cut in two.
Let the light be called Day so that men may grow corn or take busses.
Man is a bird full of mud, I say aloud. And death looks on with a casual eye and scratches his anus.
Inside many of us is a small old man who wants to get out.
I see myself as one would see another. I have been cut in two.
Let there be a heaven so that man may outlive his grasses.
Of course the New Testament is very small. Its mouth opens four times as out-of-date as a prehistoric monster, yet somehow man-made....
Now I am just an elderly lady who is full of spleen, who humps around greater Boston in a God-awful hat, who never lived and yet outlived her time, hating men and dogs and Democrats.
As for me, I am a watercolor. I wash off.
Perhaps I am no one. True, I have a body and I cannot escape from it. I would like to fly out of my head, but that is out of the question.
What a lay me down this is with two pink, two orange, two green, two white goodnights.