Sylvia Plath Day by Day, Volume 2 Quotes

“Warren and Maggie visiting her in the spring. “It’s too bad my poems frighten you—but you’ve always been afraid of reading or seeing the world’s hardest things—like Hiroshima, the Inquisition or Belsen.”
― Carl Rollyson, Sylvia Plath Day by Day, Volume 2: 1955-1963

“love to tell your story. Someone remarked to me after reading your poem in The Atlantic, ‘How intense.’ Sometime write me a little poem that isn’t intense. A lamp turned too high might shatter its chimney. Please just glow sometimes.” {CR1}”
― Carl Rollyson, Sylvia Plath Day by Day, Volume 2: 1955-1963

“morning, struggles with “two bad poems,” a “slight recurrence of sick, sterile fear in face of his great creativeness,”
― Carl Rollyson, Sylvia Plath Day by Day, Volume 2: 1955-1963

“To Richard Sassoon: Confesses to a “certain great sorrow in me now…. I must stop identifying with the seasons, because this English winter will be the death of me.”
― Carl Rollyson, Sylvia Plath Day by Day, Volume 2: 1955-1963