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A list of 10 Things Sylvia Plath Loved — including sun-bathing, France, and Marilyn Monroe. Read more > From Plath’s journals: Marilyn Monroe appeared to me last night in a dream as a kind of fairy godmother. An occasion of ‘chatting’ with audience much as the occasion with Eliot will turn out, I suppose. I spoke, almost in tears, of how much she and Arthur Miller meant to us, although they could, of course, not know us at all. She gave me an expert manicure.

A list of 10 Things Sylvia Plath Loved — including sun-bathing, France, and Marilyn Monroe. Read more >

From Plath’s journals:

Marilyn Monroe appeared to me last night in a dream as a kind of fairy godmother. An occasion of ‘chatting’ with audience much as the occasion with Eliot will turn out, I suppose. I spoke, almost in tears, of how much she and Arthur Miller meant to us, although they could, of course, not know us at all. She gave me an expert manicure.

Not that one. Or that one. Robert Frost.

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Chris Marker: 1921 - yesterday.

I would have spent my life trying to understand the function of remembering — which is not the opposite of forgetting — but its lining.

Design by Nikola Cernovich.  Created to accompany This, a poem by Charles Olson. Black Mountain, NC: Black Mountain College Graphics Workshop, 1952.

Design by Nikola Cernovich.  Created to accompany This, a poem by Charles Olson. Black Mountain, NC: Black Mountain College Graphics Workshop, 1952.

Harlem by Langston Hughes What happens to a dream deferred?Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?Or fester like a sore - and then run?Does it stink like rotten meat?Or crust and sugar over - like a syrupy sweet?Maybe it just sags like a heavy load.Or does it explode?

Harlem by Langston Hughes

What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore - and then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over - like a syrupy sweet?
Maybe it just sags like a heavy load.
Or does it explode?


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Collage by John Ashbery

Collage by John Ashbery