"The Munich Mannequins" http://www.angelfire.com/tn/plath/munich.html
Ariel (1965)
Source: The Collected Poems
“Brethren, do not become children in sense: but in malice be children, and in sense be perfect.”
1 Corinthians 14:20 (as quoted in Catholic Bible Douay-Rehims http://www.biblebible.com/text-bible/Catholic-Bible/1_corinthians_14.asp)
First Epistle to the Corinthians
“There is a perfection in everything that cannot be owned”
Variant: There is a perfection in everything that cannot be owned.
Source: Delta of Venus
As quoted by David Ablin and Marlowe Hood (March 14, 1985), "The Lesser Evil: An Interview with Norodom Sihanouk" http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/1985/mar/14/the-lesser-evil-an-interview-with-norodom-sihanouk/?pagination=false, The New York Review of Books.
Interviews
“Children and fooles cannot lye.”
Part I, chapter 11.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Variant: Children and fooles cannot lye.
Litany for Dictatorships (1935)
Context: For those denounced by their smug, horrible children
For a peppermint-star and the praise of the Perfect State,
For all those strangled, gelded or merely starved
To make perfect states; for the priest hanged in his cassock,
The Jew with his chest crushed in and his eyes dying,
The revolutionist lynched by the private guards
To make perfect states, in the names of the perfect states.
