You marvel at the economy and this choice of words. How many ways can you describe the sky and the moon? After Sylvia Plath, what can you say?
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On British mystery writer Ruth Rendell, in The New York Times (6 October 2005)Toni Morrison
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I was inexpressibly struck, overtaken by chills, the likes of which I have not felt since the time I studied Sylvia Plath. Vanna Bonta is an important discovery.
Vanna Bonta
Like all twenty-one-year-old poets, I thought I would be dead by thirty, and Sylvia Plath had not set a helpful example. For a while there, you were made to feel that, if a poet and female, you could not really be serious about it unless you'd made a least one suicide attempt. So I felt I was running out of time.
Margaret Atwood
It is interesting to note that poetry, a literary device whose very construct involves the use of words, is itself the word of choice by persons grasping to describe something so beautiful, it is marvelously ineffable.
Vanna Bonta
Our future is on the moon. It has vast resources that will drive our economy for many months - perhaps even weeks, also, it is our duty to contact the massive sky baby made of potatoes. Which, of course, is actually what the moon is.
Newt Gingrich
(Man in bar) The kind of woman I want just isn't around anymore. (Sylvia) Perhaps if you wait for a full moon.
Nicole Hollander
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