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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... wounding God with his blue face, his tyranny, his absolute kingdom, with my aphrodisiac. 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
For God was as large as a sunlamp and laughed his heat at us and therefore we did not cringe at the death hole. Go to Quote / Comment
Darling, life is not in my hands; life with its terrible changes... Go to Quote / Comment
And thus Snow White became the prince's bride. The wicked queen was invited to the wedding feast... Go to Quote / Comment