🧩 Philosophy Oct 27, 2026 · Maria Popova

Sylvia Plath on Living with the Darkness and Making Art from the Barely Bearable Lightness of Being

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Sylvia Plath on Living with the Darkness and Making Art from the Barely Bearable Lightness of Being
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“One has to shut off that nagging part of the mind and go on without it with bravo and philosophy.”

When the twenty-two-year-old Sylvia Plath (October 27, 1932–February 11, 1963) wrote to her mother one bleak January day, both women were wading through a darkness of the soul. Science was only just beginning to hone the tools with which to begin dissecting the elemental mystery of what makes us who we are: how much of our psychology and what we experience as our personhood &#82

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