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A ring of gold with the sun in it? Lies. Lies and a grief.

A ring of gold with the sun in it? Lies. Lies and a grief.

Sylvia Plath
Lying, Grief, Gold
Sylvia Plath (2015). “Collected Poems”, p.199, Faber & Faber

I knew chemistry would be worse, because I'd seen a big card of the ninety-odd elements hung up in the chemistry lab, and all the perfectly good words like gold and silver and cobalt and aluminum were shortened to ugly abbreviations with different decimal numbers after them.

Sylvia Plath
Numbers, Perfectly Good, Gold

Do we always grind through the present, doomed to throw a gold haze of fond retrospect over the past?

Sylvia Plath
Inspirational, Past, Gold
Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.195, Anchor

Love set you going like a fat gold watch. The midwife slapped your footsoles, and your bald cry Took its place among the elements.

Sylvia Plath
Gold, Watches, Elements
'Morning Song' (1965)

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