Anne Sexton:
Born Anne Gray Harvey (Newton (Massachusetts), 9 November 1928 – Weston (Massachusetts), 4 October 1974).
American poet. In 1967, she won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry.
This November there seems to be nothing to say.
I know that I have died before—once in November.
I would like to think that no one would die anymore if we all believed in daisies but worms know better, don’t they?
It is June. I am tired of being brave.
Do not rely on February. The sun in this month begets a headache like an angel slapping you in the face.
Which (as far as can be verified) is problematic. In common, officially published Sexton corpora (such as The Complete Poems, large anthologies, and frequently consulted volumes), this sentence is not consistently cited with a clear source. Therefore, in practice, it is considered unconfirmed/dubiously attributed: it could be Sexton, but the attribution is weak without a solid source. In short: Anne Sexton as the author is possible, but not solidly proven based on how the quotation is typically reported.
During the rainstorms of April, the oyster rises from the sea and opens its shell, rain enters it. When it sinks, the raindrops become pearls.
