Sylvia Plath Quote

I am incapable of more knowledge.
What is this, this face
So murderous in its strangle of branches? — Its snaky acids hiss.
It petrifies the will. These are the isolate, slow faults,
That kill, that kill, that kill.

"Elm" - Ariel (1965)

I am incapable of more knowledge. What is this, this face So murderous in its strangle of branches? — Its snaky acids hiss. It petrifies the will....

I am incapable of more knowledge. What is this, this face So murderous in its strangle of branches? — Its snaky acids hiss. It petrifies the will....

I am incapable of more knowledge. What is this, this face So murderous in its strangle of branches? — Its snaky acids hiss. It petrifies the will....

I am incapable of more knowledge. What is this, this face So murderous in its strangle of branches? — Its snaky acids hiss. It petrifies the will....