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I think my poems immediately come out of the sensuous and emotional experiences I have, but I must say I cannot sympathise with these cries from the heart that are informed by nothing except a needle or a knife, or whatever it is.

Sylvia Plath

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Sylvia Plath
Age: 30 †
Born: 1932
Born: October 27
Died: 1963
Died: February 11
Autobiographer
Diarist
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Boston
Massachusetts
Victoria Lucas
Sylvia Plath Hughes
Think
Except
Cries
Thinking
Emotional
Knife
Whatever
Informed
Cannot
Knives
Come
Poems
Sympathise
Nothing
Immediately
Sensuous
Must
Experiences
Needle
Heart
Cry
Needles

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