A Quotation from Anne Sexton

Here is a line from the poem "Anna Who Was Mad" in The Book of Folly (1972) by American poet Anne Sexton, who was born in Newton, Massachusetts, in 1928 and lived all of her life in or near Boston. Her first book of poems, To Bedlam and Part Way Back, was published in 1960; her last, Words for Dr. Y., was published after her death, by her own hand, in 1974. She won the Pulitzer Prize in poetry in 1967 for Live or Die. To read more about Anne Sexton, click here.