Sylvia Plath on Living with the Darkness and Making Art from the Barely Bearable Lightness of Being
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Sylvia Plath on Living with the Darkness and Making Art from the Barely Bearable Lightness of Being
Do you know what a poem is, Esther?'
'No, what?' I would say. '
A piece of dust.'
Then, just as he was smiling and starting to look proud, I would say, 'So are the cadavers you cut up. So are the people you think you're curing. They're dust as dust as dust. I reckon a good poem lasts a whole lot longer than a hundred of those people put together.'
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