That's right – a Reuters report says that according to a U.S. researcher, poets die younger than other writers. He's calling it the "Sylvia Plath" effect.

I think we all know how "tortured" and "disturbed" writers are in general and how they are prone to mental illness and self-destructive behavior.

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