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Quotes from The Awful Rowing Toward God — Anne Sexton

d. 1974

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The tongue, the Chinese say,
is like a sharp knife:
it kills
without drawing blood.

The Awful Rowing Toward God (1975)

I am, each day,
typing out the God
my typewriter believes in.
Very quick. Very intense,
like a wolf at a live heart.

The Awful Rowing Toward God (1975)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Anne Sexton (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.