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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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Quote Left But I died yesterday, "Daddy," I died,... Quote Right
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Quote Left grown fully, as they say, they gave her a ring,... Quote Right
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Quote Left My life has appeared unclothed in court,... Quote Right
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Quote Left they were placed in a box and painted identically blue... Quote Right
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Quote Left So I won't hang around in my hospital shift, repeating The Black Mass and all of it.... Quote Right
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