“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
“I have often fought, fought & won, not perfection, but an acceptance of myself as having a right to live on my own human, fallible terms.”
― The Journals of Sylvia Plath
― The Journals of Sylvia Plath
“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
“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
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