Home » Quote » Sylvia Plath » „Backward we traveled to reclaim the dayBefore we fell, like Icarus, undone;All we find are altars in decayAnd profane words scrawled black across the sun.–From the poem “Doom of the Exiles”, written 16 April 1954“
„Backward we traveled to reclaim the dayBefore we fell, like Icarus, undone;All we find are altars in decayAnd profane words scrawled black across the sun.–From the poem “Doom of the Exiles”, written 16 April 1954“