For me poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose.

"I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me."

Sylvia Plath

"Kiss me and you will see how important I am."

Sylvia Plath

"Feel oddly barren. My sickness is when words draw in their horns and the physical world refuses to be ordered, recreated, arranged and selected. I am a victim of it then, not a master."

Sylvia Plath

"I woke to the sound of rain."

Sylvia Plath

"You must create the right kind of dream, the sober, adult kind of magic: illusion born from disillusion."

Sylvia Plath

"They had to call and callAnd pick the worms off me like sticky pearls.--From the poem 'Lady Lazarus', written 23-29 October 1962."

Sylvia Plath