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Olive Higgins Prouty

“Sometime write me a little poem that isn't intense. A lamp turned too high might shatter its chimney. Please just glow sometimes.”
- Olive Higgins Prouty,
- letter to Sylvia Plath (1957), in Aurelia Schober Plath, ed., Letters Home (1973)

Olive Higgins Prouty, U.S. writer

(1882 - 1974)

Full name: Olive Chapin Higgings Prouty.