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
Craft is a trick you make up to let you write the poem.
We are all writing God's poem.
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.
The beautiful feeling after writing a poem is on the whole better even than after sex, and that's saying a lot.
I'll vacuum up my stale hair, I'll pay all my neighbors' bad debts, I'll write a poem called Yellow and put my lips down to drink it up....
I think of myself as writing for one person, that one perfect reader who understands and loves.
I'm an empress. I wear an apron. My typewriter writes. It didn't break the way it warned. Even crazy, I'm as nice as a chocolate bar.
I think I've been writing black poems all along, wearing my white mask. I'm always the victim ... but no longer!
All I am is the trick of words writing themselves.
When I'm writing, I know I'm doing the thing I was born to do.
A woman who writes feels too much.
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.