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“I will not let myself get sick, go mad or retreat like a child into blubbering on someone else's shoulder. Masks are the order of the day-and the least I can do is cultivate the illusion that I am gay, serene, not hollow and afraid. Someday, god knows when, I will stop this absurd, self-pitying, idle, futile despair.”

Despair Depression Pity Hollow Afraid Sylvia Plath

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“What other woman would dare to draw blood with a kiss? He saw in Plath the same things she had found in his early poems–a fascination with what he would later call "positive violence,”

Violence Blood Fascination Sylvia Plath

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“Oh, he is here; my black marauder; oh hungry hungry. I am so hungry for a big smashing creative burgeoning love...The panther wakes and stalks again. She "lay, burning, fevered with this disease”

Hungry Burning Consuming Love

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“Plath portrayed Hughes as a creator and destroyer of worlds, who spared little sentiment for the women he loved and left.”

Relationships Sylvia Plath Ted Hughes

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“She told Aurelia he was a "a violent Adam," "a breaker of things and people," "arrogant, used to walking over women like a blast of Jove's lightning," she had spent less than a week with him.”

Relationships Violent Sylvia Plath Ted Hughes

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“I lust for him, and in my mind I am ripped to bits by the words he welds and wields...and glory in the temporary sun of his ruthless force.”

Force Glory Lust Ruthless Violent Love

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