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“I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;I lift my lids and all is born again.”

— Sylvia Plath

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Source

Title
Wikiquote: Sylvia Plath
Type
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Context

"Mad Girl's Love Song" (1953) from Collected Poems (1981)

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Plath, Sylvia. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Sylvia Plath. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sylvia_Plath

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