Quote by: Anne Sexton

Each night I am nailed into place and forget who I am. Daddy? That's another kind of prison. It's not the prince at all, but my father drunkeningly bends over my bed, circling the abyss like a shark, my father thick upon me like some sleeping jellyfish. What voyage is this, little girl? This coming out of prison? God help - this life after death?


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Author Bio


  • NameAnne Sexton
  • Descriptionpoet from the United States
  • AliasesAnne Gray Harvey
  • BornNovember 9, 1928
  • DiedOctober 4, 1974
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionPoet; Author
  • WorksLive Or Die
  • AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship; Pulitzer Prize For Poetry