“I talk to God but the sky is empty.”

— Sylvia Plath

Draft of letter to Richard Sassoon (1950-02-19)
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (2000)
Variant: I talk to God, but the sky is empty.

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American poet, novelist and short story writer 1932–1963

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