“The religion of Christianity
Is mixed of sweetness and cruelty
Reject this Sweetness, for she wears
A smoky dress out of hell fires.”

—  Stevie Smith

"Thoughts about the Christian Doctrine of Eternal Hell"
Selected Poems (1962)

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poet, novelist, illustrator, performer 1902–1971

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