Rachael

“I didn't want any flowers, I only wanted
To lie with my hands turned up
and be utterly empty.
How free it is, you have no idea how free -
The peacefulness is so big it dazes you,
And it asks for nothing. ~ Tulips (1961)”
― Sylvia Plath, Plath: Poems

“Eternity bores me,
I never wanted it.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Collected Poems

“Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.”
― John Fowles, The Collector

“I know the bottom, she says. I know it with my great tap root:
It is what you fear.
I do not fear it: I have been there.

--from "Elm", written 19 April 1962”
― Sylvia Plath, Ariel