I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.

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• Sylvia Plath:

  The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it.

• Sylvia Plath:

  How frail the human heart must be - a mirrored pool of thought.

• Sylvia Plath:

  Widow. The word consumes itself.

• Sylvia Plath:

  Kiss me and you will see how important I am.

• Sylvia Plath:

  Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing.

• Sylvia Plath:

  Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wantin

• Sylvia Plath:

  But life is long. And it is the long run that balances the short flare of interest and passion.

• Sylvia Plath:

  I am too pure for you or anyone.

• Sylvia Plath:

  Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline. You've got to go so far so fast in such a small space;

• Sylvia Plath:

  I think my poems immediately come out of the sensuous and emotional experiences I have.