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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I would sell my life to avoid the pain that begins in the crib... Go to Quote / Comment
How did it die? I called it EVIL. I said to it, your poems stink like vomit. Go to Quote / Comment
Then he told the news media the strange details of his death... Go to Quote / Comment
Faces, suddenly suspended above you; faces that you think it's your business to love if only you could remember their names. Go to Quote / Comment
Yes, I know. Death sits with his key in my lock. Not one day is taken for granted. Even nursery rhymes have put me in hock. Go to Quote / Comment