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''Love is a shadow.
How you lie and cry after it.
Listen: these are its hooves: it has gone off, like a horse.''
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Sylvia Plath (1932-1963), U.S. poet. Elm (l. 7-9). . .
The Collected Poems [Sylvia Plath]. Ted Hughes, ed. (1981) HarperCollins.
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''Devilish leopard!
Radiation turned it white''
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Sylvia Plath (1932-1963), U.S. poet. Fever 103 (l. 22-23). . .
The Collected Poems [Sylvia Plath]. Ted Hughes, ed. (1981) HarperCollins.
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''I am too pure for you or anyone.''
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Sylvia Plath (1932-1963), U.S. poet. Fever 103 (l. 34). . .
The Collected Poems [Sylvia Plath]. Ted Hughes, ed. (1981) HarperCollins.
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''I
Am a pure acetylene
Virgin
Attended by roses,
By kisses, by cherubim,
By whatever these pink things mean.''
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Sylvia Plath (1932-1963), U.S. poet. Fever 103 (l. 45-50). . .
The Collected Poems [Sylvia Plath]. Ted Hughes, ed. (1981) HarperCollins.
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''I am a lantern—
My head a moon
Of Japanese paper, my gold beaten skin
Infinitely delicate and infinitely expensive.''
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Sylvia Plath (1932-1963), U.S. poet. Fever 103 (l. 36-39). . .
The Collected Poems [Sylvia Plath]. Ted Hughes, ed. (1981) HarperCollins.
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''Greasing the bodies of adulterers
Like Hiroshima ash and eating in.
The sin. The sin.''
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Sylvia Plath (1932-1963), U.S. poet. Fever 103 (l. 25-27). . .
The Collected Poems [Sylvia Plath]. Ted Hughes, ed. (1981) HarperCollins.
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''Not him, nor him
(My selves dissolving, old whore petticoats)—
To Paradise.''
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Sylvia Plath (1932-1963), U.S. poet. Fever 103 (l. 52-54). . .
The Collected Poems [Sylvia Plath]. Ted Hughes, ed. (1981) HarperCollins.
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''Darling, all night
I have been flickering, off, on, off, on.
The sheets grow heavy as a lecher's kiss.''
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Sylvia Plath (1932-1963), U.S. poet. Fever 103 (l. 28-30). . .
The Collected Poems [Sylvia Plath]. Ted Hughes, ed. (1981) HarperCollins.
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''Apparently, the most difficult feat for a Cambridge male is to accept a woman not merely as feeling, not merely as thinking, but as managing a complex, vital interweaving of both.''
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Sylvia Plath (1932-1963), U.S. poet. Isis (Oxford, May 6, 1956).
Written while Plath was a student at Cambridge.
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''Do I terrify?—
The nose, the eye pits, the full set of teeth?
The sour breath
Will vanish in a day.''
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Sylvia Plath (1932-1963), U.S. poet. Lady Lazarus (l. 12-15). . .
The Collected Poems [Sylvia Plath]. Ted Hughes, ed. (1981) HarperCollins.
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Balloons
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Since Christmas they have lived with us,
Guileless and clear,
Oval soul-animals,
Taking up half the space,
Moving and rubbing on the silk
Invisible air drifts,
Giving a shriek and pop
When attacked, then scooting to rest, barely trembling.
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