"How frail the human heart must be — a mirrored pool of thought."
— Sylvia Plath

January 1, 1970

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"I Thought I Could Not Be Hurt," quoted in the introduction to Letters Home: Correspondence 1950–1963 (1975) as Plath's first poem, written at age 14