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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.

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.

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

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

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

Rats live on no evil star

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

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.

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

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.

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

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