Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) was an American writer, poet, and novelist. She advanced the genre of "confessional poetry" and is most well known for The Colossus and Other Poems, Ariel, and The Bell Jar.


I am made, crudely, for success.

I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my lids and all is born again.

If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.

The abstract kills, the concrete saves.

Your room is not your prison. You are.

Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.