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  • Evil is maybe lying to God. Or better, lying to love.

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    Anne Sexton (1975). “The Awful Rowing Toward God”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

  • Take adultery or theft. Merely sins. It is evil who dines on the soul, stretching out its long bone tongue. It is evil who tweezers my heart, picking out its atomic worms.

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    Anne Sexton (1978). “Words for Dr. Y.: uncollected poems with three stories”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

  • You must be a poet, a lady of evil luck desiring to be what you are not, longing to be what you can only visit.

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    Anne Sexton (1975). “The Awful Rowing Toward God”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

  • But even in a telephone booth evil can seep out of the receiver and we must cover it with a mattress, and then tear it from its roots and bury it, bury it.

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    Anne Sexton (1975). “The Awful Rowing Toward God”, Boston : Houghton Mifflin

  • Rats live on no evil star

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    Anne Sexton, Linda Gray Sexton, Lois Ames (2004). “Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters”, p.423, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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Anne Sexton

  • Born: November 9, 1928
  • Died: October 4, 1974
  • Occupation: Poet
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