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through the fiber of my hand
— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (Anchor, 2000), page 554
mind living on paper and flesh living in offspring
— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (Anchor, 2000), page 45
my male muse, my pole-star centering me steady & right
— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (Anchor, 2000), page 365
She's not my daughter. Not my nice girl. Where did that girl go?
— Sylvia Plath, journal of 12 December 1958 to 15 November 1959, in The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
tapping crisp as thimbles on a window pane
— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (Anchor, 2000), page 526

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