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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I am tearing the feathers out of the pillows, waiting, waiting for Daddy to come home... Go to Quote / Comment
And thus Snow White became the prince's bride. The wicked queen was invited to the wedding feast... Go to Quote / Comment
Going down for the last time, the last breath lying, I grapple with eels like ropes—it's ether, it's queer... Go to Quote / Comment
In the mind there is a thin alley called death and I move through it as through water. Go to Quote / Comment
Poor thing. To die and never see Brooklyn. Go to Quote / Comment