
“Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.”
Variant: Kiss me and you will see how important I am.
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.”
Variant: Kiss me and you will see how important I am.
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“A kiss would kill me, woman,
If beauty were not death…”
Hérodiade.
Hérodiade (1898)
Context: A kiss would kill me, woman,
If beauty were not death...
By what attraction
Am I drawn, what morn forgotten by the prophets
That pours on the dying distance its sad rites?
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath