“It is raining. I am tempted to write a poem. But I remember what it said on one rejection slip: After a heavy rainfall, poems titled RAIN pour in from across the nation.”

— Sylvia Plath

1950-07-06
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (2000)
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