I felt myself melting into the shadows like the negative of a person I'd never seen before in my life.
Sylvia PlathIf the moon smiled, she would resemble you. You leave the same impression Of something beautiful, but annihilating.
Sylvia PlathI find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem, when I'm writing one. Having written one, then you fall away very rapidly from having been a poet to becoming a sort of poet in rest, which isn't the same thing at all. But I think the actual experience of writing a poem is a magnificent one.
Sylvia Plath