Sylvia Plath - Poetry's Lioness

"What I couldn’t stand was this shrinking everything into letters and numbers. Instead of leaf shapes and enlarged diagrams of the holes the leaves breathe through and fascinating words like carotene and xanthophyl on the blackboard, there were those hideous, cramped, scorpion-lettered formulas in Mr. Manzi’s special red chalk […] I knew chemistry would be worse…all the perfectly good words like gold and silver and cobalt and aluminum were shortened to ugly abbreviations with different decimal numbers after them."

Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar. (via maddyluna)

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