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Anne Sexton [1928-1974] American
Rank: 102
Poet (with poems)

Bipolar disorder, Committed suicide, Confessionalism, Slavery


Anne Sexton was an American poet, known for her highly personal, confessional verse. She won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1967 for her book Live or Die.

Death, Father's Day



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Saints have no moderation, nor do poets, just exuberance.
101
Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.
102
It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was. Father's Day
103
The beautiful feeling after writing a poem is on the whole better even than after sex, and that's saying a lot.
104
God has a brown voice, as soft and full as beer.
105
In a dream you are never eighty.
106
Death's in the good-bye. Death
107
I am not immortal. Faustus and I are the also-ran.
108
The joy that isn't shared dies young.
109
Even without wars, life is dangerous.
110
Live or die, but don't poison everything.
111
God owns heaven but He craves the earth.
112
Need is not quite belief.
113

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