“I can’t conceive how I ever lived without him; no wonder I was dissatisfied with men: there isn’t a brain I know that can match his…”
— Sylvia Plath, The Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume II: 1956–1963′ — Aurelia Schober Plath, 28th January 1957
“Why can’t I try on different lives, like dresses, to see which fits best and is most becoming?”
— Sylvia Plath
Mirror
I am silver and exact.I have no preconceptions.whatever I see I swallow immediately just as it is,unmisted by love or dislike.I am not cruel,only truthful. The eye of a little god,four-cornered.
—Sylvia Plath
mortal doubt and isolation in poetry and song
worsening, baths / deaf republic, ilya kaminsky / alone, live / letter to r. sassoon (draft), sylvia plath
was held prisoner but At Least i was held
A. Hering’s Death and the Maiden - edit, version 2 & 3
I wish I was special..
