It is a terrible thing to be so open: it is as if my heart put on a fa…

Sylvia Plath
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It is a terrible thing to be so open: it is as if my heart put on a face and walked into the world. ✨ Sylvia Plath (2015). Collected Poems, Faber & Faber
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I felt dull and flat and full of shattered visions. ✨ Sylvia Plath (2016). The Bell Jar, p.33, Hamilton Books
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At twenty I tried to die And get back, back, back to you. I thought even the bones would do. ✨ Sylvia Plath (2011). Selected Poems of Sylvia Plath, p.50, Faber & Faber
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