“But artists didn't need to achieve "firsts", and Hughes wanted to be an artist.”
Diane Wood Middlebrook“If suffering like hers had any use, she reasoned, it was not to the sufferer. The only way that an individual's pain gained meaning was through its communication to others.”
Diane Wood Middlebrook, Anne Sexton: A Biography“But artists didn't need to achieve "firsts", and Hughes wanted to be an artist.”
Diane Wood Middlebrook, Her Husband: Ted Hughes and Sylvia Plath - A Marriage