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 My heart is on a budget. It keeps me on the brink. Quote Right
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Quote Left Judas had a mother His mother had a dream. Because of this dream he was altogether managed by fate and thus he raped her. Quote Right
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Quote Left her young years bungle past their same marriage bed... Quote Right
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Quote Left you come, a brave ghost, to fix in my mind without praise or paradise to make me your inheritor. Quote Right
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Quote Left It is a dead heart. It is inside of me. It is a stranger yet once it was agreeable, opening and closing like a clam. Quote Right
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