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, you lie in my arms like a cherub, as heavy as bread dough. Your milky wings are as still as plastic. Go to Quote / Comment
The others died, the luck of it blurting through them. I could not, I was a silly broken umbrella... Go to Quote / Comment
It is snowing and death bugs me as stubborn as insomnia.... Go to Quote / Comment
At the next town the local princess was having a contest.... Go to Quote / Comment
Death, I need my little addiction to you.... Go to Quote / Comment