Anne Sexton

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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 The others died, the luck of it blurting through them. I could not, I was a silly broken umbrella... 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 Now that you are laid out, useless as a blind dog, now that you no longer lurk, the song rings in my head. Quote Right
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Quote Left Why do you smile that liverish smile? Why do you double over in a spaz and a swoon,... Quote Right
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Quote Left Listen. We must all stop dying in the little ways, in the craters of hate, in the potholes of indifference.... Quote Right
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