“I am terrified by this dark thing
That sleeps in me;
All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity.”

— Sylvia Plath, Ariel

"Elm" http://www.angelfire.com/tn/plath/elm.html Source: Ariel (1965) Context: p>I am inhabited by a cry. Nightly it flaps out Looking, with its hooks, for something to love.I am terrified by this dark thing That sleeps in me; All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity.</p

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American poet, novelist and short story writer 1932–1963

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