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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 Death, you lie in my arms like a cherub, as heavy as bread dough. Your milky wings are as still as plastic. Quote Right
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Quote Left But you you go ahead, go on, go on back down... Quote Right
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Quote Left There is a good look that I wear like a blood clot. I have sewn it over my left breast. I have made a vocation of it. Quote Right
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Quote Left They are as neat as a wallet, opening and closing on their coins,... Quote Right
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Quote Left Big heart, wide as a watermelon, but wise as birth, there is so much abundance in the people I have.... Quote Right
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