“All night your moth-breath
Flickers among the flat pink roses. I wake to listen.
A far sea moves in my ear.
--from "Morning Song", written 19 February 1961”
― Ariel: The Restored Edition
Flickers among the flat pink roses. I wake to listen.
A far sea moves in my ear.
--from "Morning Song", written 19 February 1961”
― Ariel: The Restored Edition
“Writing, then, was a substitute for myself: if you don't love me, love my writing & love me for my writing. It is also much more: a way of ordering and reordering the chaos of experience.”
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“I have stitched life into me like a rare organ
--from "Three Women: A Poem for Three Voices", written 1962”
― The Collected Poems
--from "Three Women: A Poem for Three Voices", written 1962”
― The Collected Poems
“Novels institutionalize the ruse of eros. It becomes a narrative texture of sustained incongruence, emotional and cognitive. It permits the reader to stand in triangular relation to the characters in the story and reach into the text after the objects of their desire, sharing their longing but also detached from it, seeing their view of reality but also its mistakenness. It is almost like being in love.”
― Eros the Bittersweet
― Eros the Bittersweet
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