Anne Sexton Quotes About Evil

Quotes about: Evil

• 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

• 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

• 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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