Sylvia Plath (; October 27, 1932 – February 11, 1963) was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer. She is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and is best known for The Colossus and Other Poems (1960), Ariel (1965), and The Bell Jar, a semi-autobiographical novel published...
The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn't thought about it.
The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence.