“I thought it would be the way I’d feel if I ever visited Europe. I’d come home, and if I looked closely into the mirror I’d be able to make out a little white Alp at the back of my eye. Now I thought that if I looked closely into the mirror I’d see a doll-size Constantin sitting in my eye and smiling out at me.”

“I thought it would be the way I’d feel if I ever visited Europe. I’d come home, and if I looked closely into the mirror I’d be able to make out a little white Alp at the back of my eye. Now I thought that if I looked closely into the mirror I’d see a doll-size Constantin sitting in my eye and smiling out at me.”

— Sylvia Plath