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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Death's a sad bone; bruised, you'd say, and yet she waits for me, year after year, Go to Quote / Comment
I am out of practice at living. You are as brave as a motorcycle. Go to Quote / Comment
Judas had a mother His mother had a dream. Because of this dream he was altogether managed by fate and thus he raped her. Go to Quote / Comment
He had kind eyes and hands and was a friend of sorrow. Thus they were married. After all he had compromised her. Go to Quote / Comment
But I died yesterday, 'Daddy,' I died,... Go to Quote / Comment