Sylvia Plath & Tomato Soup Cake

Cooking was the other important activity in her life. It was a passion in the same way that poetry was a passion. Something she couldn’t leave alone. Between and along with writing her great poems, Lady Lazarus, Daddy, or Medusa, Sylvia would be thinking on custard or banana bread or buying the lamb for the [...]






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"You know what it is to have a fixed idea, for instance when a man keeps on thinking about the same thing day and night, about... let us say, the moon. Well, I, too, have a kind of moon of my own. I'm obsessed day and night by one thought: I must write, I must write, I just must..." Trigorin, in Anton Chehov's The Seagull

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