“I am inhabited by a cry.Nightly it flaps outLooking, with it…”

“I am inhabited by a cry.Nightly it flaps outLooking, with its hooks, for something to love.I am terrified by this dark thingThat sleeps in me;All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity.”

— Sylvia Plath

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

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