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If you insist on the chase," I say, my voice much surer than I feel."Then you better start training. 'Cause, dude you're in for a marathon. — Alyson Noel

Stasis in darkness.
Then the substanceless blue — Sylvia Plath

All night your moth-breath
Flickers among the flat pink roses. I wake to listen.
A far sea moves in my ear. — Sylvia Plath

'Six Feet Under,' for me, was college. Alan Ball and Alan Poul ran that show and really taught me what it meant to really run a show in a classic way. — Jill Soloway

As a poet I would say everything should be able to come into a poem but I can't put toothbrushes in a poem. I really can't. — Sylvia Plath

Empty, I echo to the least footfall — Sylvia Plath

Brave love, dream
not of staunching such strict flame, but come,
lean to my wound; burn on, burn on. — Sylvia Plath

Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline. You've got to go so far so fast in such a small space; you've got to burn away all the peripherals. — Sylvia Plath

Never before had a woman put such agonizing poetry on canvas as Frida did — Diego Rivera

The Murder is always ready. — Matthew B. Wolcott

But writing poems and letters doesn't seem to do much good. — Sylvia Plath

Clouds pass and disperse.
Are those the faces of love, those pale irretrievables?
Is it for such I agitate my heart? — Sylvia Plath

The tongues of hell are dull. — Sylvia Plath

The still waters
Wrap my lips,
Eyes, nose and ears,
A clear
Cellophane I cannot crack. — Sylvia Plath

If only we could see in advance all the harm that can come from the good we think we are doing. — Luigi Pirandello

We have conversations with each other most nights - Sylvia Plath and me! — Avijeet Das

Poetry at its best can do you a lot of harm. — Sylvia Plath

The manner of a vulgar man has freedom without ease, and the manner of a gentleman has ease without freedom. — Lord Chesterfield

Artists are the only people in a society who will tell that society the truth about itself. — James Baldwin

Stars open among the lilies.
Are you not blinded by such expressionless sirens?
This is the silence of astounded souls. — Sylvia Plath

She. Silent, fawn-eyed. Clever. — Sylvia Plath

I am solitary as grass. What is it I miss?
Shall I ever find it, whatever it is? — Sylvia Plath

I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my eyes and all is born again. — Sylvia Plath

The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it. — Sylvia Plath

I fancied you'd return the way you said,
But I grow old and I forget your name.
From the poem Mad Girl's Love Song — Sylvia Plath

Some souls aren't worth saving, I thought. There're some souls that even the devil wants no part of. — David Joy

The blood jet is poetry
There is no stopping it. — Sylvia Plath

But no. No. He may have boarded this bad idea train, but now it was time to derail it. — Elle Kennedy

For me, poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose. — Sylvia Plath

So I perversely circle the late stars, drowsier and drowsier, sleepily longing for something. — Sylvia Plath

I lean to you, numb as a fossil. Tell me I'm here. — Sylvia Plath

I am inhabited by a cry.
Nightly it flaps out
Looking, with its hooks, for something to love. — Sylvia Plath

Oh, I was born here. There's a village a few miles south of Varinshold, so small it doesn't even have a name. You'll find my kin there. — Anthony Ryan