I love Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. I also love more cerebral poets like H.D. and Emily Dickinson. My parents subscribed to… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
I definitely notice the absence of character in most poetry, which is not so say that I'm an innovator in that regard.… — Shane McCrae Copy Share Image
¢ Your silence has been with me and I have let it have its say. I feel, as always, the same closeness… — Aroha Janet Copy Share Image
“It was not uncommon to walk in the door of their home and find my mother sitting on the sofa reading over… — Augusten Burroughs Copy Share Image
I myself hate that old Hemingwayesque paradigm of the writer as prizefighter and I have tried hard to create an alternate one… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“Anne Sexton knows the mind, Walt Whitman knows grass, but Emily Dickinson knows everything.” — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
I shared a bed with my sister, Grace, until I was seventeen years old. She was afraid to sleep alone and would… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
“ONE CAN'T BUILD LITTLE WHITE PICKET FENCES TO KEEP NIGHTMARES OUT. -Anne Sexton” — Kimberly McCreight Copy Share Image
Augustine, Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath are confessional writers and all three make me sick. I have nothing in common with them. — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Life, of course, never gets anyone's entire attention. Death always remains interesting, pulls us, draws us. As sleep is necessary to our… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
