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“How frail the human heart must be —a mirrored pool of thought.”

— Sylvia Plath

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Wikiquote: Sylvia Plath
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Context

"I Thought I Could Not Be Hurt," quoted in the introduction to Letters Home: Correspondence 1950–1963 (1975) as Plath's first poem, written at age 14

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

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