Thoughts on { A bath | Sylvia Plath / F. Scott Fitzgerald / Dylan Thomas / Mae West
Alfred Stevens, The Bath, 1867
“Poetry is not the most important thing in life… I’d much rather lie in a hot bath reading Agatha Christie and sucking sweets.”
Dylan Thomas, 1914-1953
“Whenever I’m sad I’m going to die, or so nervous I can’t sleep, or in love with somebody I won’t be seeing for a week, I slump down just so far and then I say: ‘I’ll go take a hot bath.”
Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar, 1963
“I want you to take a red-hot bath as hot as you can bear it, and
just relax your nerves. You can read in the tub if you wish.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise, 1920
“When in doubt take a bath.”
Mae West, 1893-1980
