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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 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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Quote Left He wants to fly into the hand of Michelangelo and come out painted on a ceiling.... Quote Right
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Quote Left But I died yesterday, "Daddy," I died,... Quote Right
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Quote Left Someone is dead. Even the trees know it, those poor old dancers who come on lewdly, all pea-green scarfs and spine pole. Quote Right
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Quote Left For she has outlived the dates in the back of Fords, she has outlived the penises of her teens to come here, to the married harbor. Quote Right
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