“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.”

— Sylvia Plath · Life quote

“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.”

— SYLVIA PLATH

Poet and novelist · 1932 – 1963

Sylvia Plath was an American poet and novelist best known for her novel The Bell Jar and the posthumous Ariel poems. Her intensely confessional writing explored identity, depression and the natural world. She was awarded a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for her Collected Poems in 1982.

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