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The blood jet is poetry,
There is no stopping it.

— Sylvia Plath Ariel (1965)

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I desire the things which will destroy me in the end.

The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (2000)

If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.

The Bell Jar (1963)

The blood of love welled up in my heart with a slow pain.

The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (2000)

What a man is is an arrow into the future and what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from.

The Bell Jar (1963)

To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is the bad dream.

The Bell Jar (1963)

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I am no poet, but if you think for yourselves, as I proceed, the facts will form a poem in your minds.

Michael Faraday

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