I am terrified by this dark thingThat sleeps in meAll day I feel its soft feathery turnings its malignity. Sylvia Plath Next Quote I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow. - Sylvia Plath Previous Quote because wherever I saton the deck of a ship or at a street caf in Paris or BangkokI would be sitting under the same glass bell jar stewing in my own sour air. - Sylvia Plath