COLLECTED POEMS, EDITED AND WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY TED HUGHES B y the time of her death, on 11 February, 1963, Sylvia Plath had written a large bulk of poetry. To my knowledge, she never scrapped any of her poetic efforts. With one or two exceptions, she brought every piece she worked on to some final form acceptable to her, rejecting at most the odd verse, or a false head or a false tail. …
"A man has to be very careful, not only of his fists, but of his words."