Sylvia Plath, Ariel

Quotes

• “Dying is an art.Like everything else,I do it exceptionally well.I do it so it feels like hell.I do it so it feels real.I...”
• “I am terrified by this dark thingThat sleeps in me;All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity.”
• “Is it the sea you hear in me,Its dissatisfactions?Or the voice of nothing, that was you madness?”
• “I am inhabited by a cry. Nightly it flaps outLooking, with its hooks, for something to love.”
• “The blood jet is poetryThere is no stopping it.”