Anne Gray Harvey Sexton, American poet and playwright, was born in Newton, Massachusetts, the daughter of Ralph Harvey, a successful woolen manufacturer, and Mary Gray Staples. Sexton is known for her highly personal, confessional verse. She won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1967 for her book Live or Die.
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The parasol girls slept, sun-sitting their lovely years. Go to Quote / Comment
Just once I knew what life was for. Go to Quote / Comment
So I won't hang around in my hospital shift, repeating The Black Mass and all of it.... Go to Quote / Comment
I am the only actor. It is difficult for one woman to act out a whole play. The play is my life, my solo act. Go to Quote / Comment
Poor thing. To die and never see Brooklyn. Go to Quote / Comment