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Sylvia Plath quotes: I am but one more drop in the great sea of matter, defined, with the ability to realize my existence. I am but one more drop in the great sea of matter, defined, with the ability to realize my existence.
Sylvia Plath quotes: I felt it was very important not to be recognized. I felt it was very important not to be recognized.
Sylvia Plath quotes: I'm doped and thick from my last sleeping pill. I'm doped and thick from my last sleeping pill.
Sylvia Plath quotes: Intoxicated with madness, I'm in love with my sadness Intoxicated with madness, I'm in love with my sadness
Sylvia Plath quotes: The sun gives you ulcers, the wind gives you T.B.Once you were beautiful. The sun gives you ulcers, the wind gives you T.B.
Once you were beautiful.
Sylvia Plath quotes: I reckon a good poem lasts a whole lot longer than a hundred of those people put together. I reckon a good poem lasts a whole lot longer than a hundred of those people put together.
Sylvia Plath quotes: I have taken a pill to kill The thin Papery feeling. I have taken a pill to kill The thin Papery feeling.
Sylvia Plath quotes: And I sit here without identity: faceless. My head aches. And I sit here without identity: faceless. My head aches.
Sylvia Plath quotes: This is the light of the mind, cold and planetary. This is the light of the mind, cold and planetary.
Sylvia Plath quotes: You smile.No, it is not fatal. You smile.
No, it is not fatal.
Sylvia Plath quotes: All night your moth-breathFlickers among the flat pink roses. I wake to listen.A far sea moves in my ear. All night your moth-breath
Flickers among the flat pink roses. I wake to listen.
A far sea moves in my ear.
Sylvia Plath quotes: I, to you, am lost in the gorgeous errors of flesh. I, to you, am lost in the gorgeous errors of flesh.
Sylvia Plath quotes: I like people, but to learn about one individual always appeals to me more than anything. I like people, but to learn about one individual always appeals to me more than anything.
Sylvia Plath quotes: I talk to God but the sky is empty. I talk to God but the sky is empty.
Sylvia Plath quotes: After all, I wasn't crippled in any way, I just studied too hard, I didn't know when to stop. After all, I wasn't crippled in any way, I just studied too hard, I didn't know when to stop.
Sylvia Plath quotes: Girls are not machines that you put kindness coins into until sex falls out. Girls are not machines that you put kindness coins into until sex falls out.
Sylvia Plath quotes: And of course I didn't know who would marry me now that I'd been where I had been. I didn't know at all. And of course I didn't know who would marry me now that I'd been where I had been. I didn't know at all.
Sylvia Plath quotes: I inhabit the wax image of myself, a doll's body. Sickness begins here; I am a dartboard for witches. I inhabit the wax image of myself, a doll's body. Sickness begins here; I am a dartboard for witches.
Sylvia Plath quotes: Write about the cow, Mrs. Spaulding's heavy eyelids, the smell of vanilla flavoring in a brown bottle. That's where the magic mountains begin. Write about the cow, Mrs. Spaulding's heavy eyelids, the smell of vanilla flavoring in a brown bottle. That's where the magic mountains begin.
Sylvia Plath quotes: And I am aware of my heart: it opens and closesIts bowl of red blooms out of sheer love of me. And I am aware of my heart: it opens and closes
Its bowl of red blooms out of sheer love of me.
Sylvia Plath quotes: I wanted to crawl in between those black lines of print, the way you crawl through a fence, and go to sleep under that beautiful big green fig-tree. I wanted to crawl in between those black lines of print, the way you crawl through a fence, and go to sleep under that beautiful big green fig-tree.
Sylvia Plath quotes: If the body is a temple, then tattoos are its stained glass windows. If the body is a temple, then tattoos are its stained glass windows.
Sylvia Plath quotes: There is a green in the air,Soft, delectable.It cushions me lovingly. There is a green in the air,
Soft, delectable.
It cushions me lovingly.
Sylvia Plath quotes: Why do my beheld beauties vanish and deform themselves as soon as I look twice. Why do my beheld beauties vanish and deform themselves as soon as I look twice.
Sylvia Plath quotes: Joan was the beaming double of my old best self, specially designed to follow and torment me. Joan was the beaming double of my old best self, specially designed to follow
and torment me.
Sylvia Plath quotes: I think my poems immediately come out of the sensuous and emotional experiences I have. I think my poems immediately come out of the sensuous and emotional experiences I have.
Sylvia Plath quotes: Curled in the cavernous leather chair and faced Doctor Gordon across an acre of highly polished desk. Doctor Curled in the cavernous leather chair and faced Doctor Gordon across an acre of highly polished desk. Doctor
Sylvia Plath quotes: In spite of everything, I still have my good old sense of humor. In spite of everything, I still have my good old sense of humor.
Sylvia Plath quotes: What ceremony of words can patch the havoc? What ceremony of words can patch the havoc?
Sylvia Plath quotes: Wanted to crawl in between those black lines of print the way you crawl through a fence, and go to sleep under that beautiful big green fig tree. It Wanted to crawl in between those black lines of print the way you crawl through a fence, and go to sleep under that beautiful big green fig tree. It
Sylvia Plath quotes: The door of the novel, like the door of the poem, also shuts. But not so fast, nor with such manic, unanswerable finality. The door of the novel, like the door of the poem, also shuts. But not so fast, nor with such manic, unanswerable finality.
Sylvia Plath quotes: Let me fly with you. Let me fly with you.
Sylvia Plath quotes: The woman is perfected. Her dead Body wears the smile of accomplishment. The woman is perfected. Her dead Body wears the smile of accomplishment.
Sylvia Plath quotes: That afternoon my mother had brought me the roses."Save them for my funeral," I'd said. That afternoon my mother had brought me the roses.
"Save them for my funeral," I'd said.
Sylvia Plath quotes: Not being perfect hurts. Not being perfect hurts.
Sylvia Plath quotes: This is my first snow at Smith. It is like any other snow, but from a different window, and there lies the singular charm of it. This is my first snow at Smith. It is like any other snow, but from a different window, and there lies the singular charm of it.
Sylvia Plath quotes: Talking about my fears to others feeds it. Talking about my fears to others feeds it.
Sylvia Plath quotes: Please, I want so badly for good things to happen.(3 months before her suicide) Please, I want so badly for good things to happen.

(3 months before her suicide)
Sylvia Plath quotes: Secretly, in studies and attics and schoolrooms all over America, people must be writing. Secretly, in studies and attics and schoolrooms all over America, people must be writing.
Sylvia Plath quotes: your fate involves a dark assailant your fate involves a dark assailant
Sylvia Plath quotes: After that, I felt safer. I didn't want anything I said or did that night to be associated with me and my real name and coming from Boston. After that, I felt safer. I didn't want anything I said or did that night to be associated with me and my real name and coming from Boston.
Sylvia Plath quotes: I, love, I am the pure acetylene virgin attended by roses. I, love, I am the pure acetylene virgin attended by roses.
Sylvia Plath quotes: Stupid pupil, it has to take everything in. Stupid pupil, it has to take everything in.
Sylvia Plath quotes: The more hopeless you were, the further away they hid you. The more hopeless you were, the further away they hid you.
Sylvia Plath quotes: The truth comes to me. The truth loves me. The truth comes to me. The truth loves me.
Sylvia Plath quotes: Love life day by day, color by color, touch by touch. Love life day by day, color by color, touch by touch.
Sylvia Plath quotes: Love set you going like a fat gold watch. Love set you going like a fat gold watch.
Sylvia Plath quotes: to be aware that you must compete somehow, and yet that wealth and beauty are not in your realm. to be aware that you must compete somehow, and yet that wealth and beauty are not in your realm.
Sylvia Plath quotes: The black instrument on the hall table trilled its hysterical note over and over, like a nervous bird. The black instrument on the hall table trilled its hysterical note over and over, like a nervous bird.
Sylvia Plath quotes: Love is an illusion, but I would willingly fall for it if I could believe in it. Love is an illusion, but I would willingly fall for it if I could believe in it.
Sylvia Plath quotes: Your shelled bed I remember.Father, this thick air is murderous.I would breathe water. Your shelled bed I remember.
Father, this thick air is murderous.
I would breathe water.
Sylvia Plath quotes: Eternity bores me,I never wanted it.From the poem "Years", 16 November 1962 Eternity bores me,
I never wanted it.
From the poem "Years", 16 November 1962
Sylvia Plath quotes: Fixed stars govern a life Fixed stars govern a life
Sylvia Plath quotes: I hurl my heart to halt his pace. I hurl my heart to halt his pace.
Sylvia Plath quotes: And I, stepping from this skin Of old bandages, boredoms, old faces Step to you from the black car of Lethe, Pure as a baby. And I, stepping from this skin Of old bandages, boredoms, old faces Step to you from the black car of Lethe, Pure as a baby.
Sylvia Plath quotes: Wear your heart on your skin in this life. Wear your heart on your skin in this life.
Sylvia Plath quotes: The day I went into physics class it was death. The day I went into physics class it was death.
Sylvia Plath quotes: I love him to hell and back and heaven and back, and have and do and will. I love him to hell and back and heaven and back, and have and do and will.
Sylvia Plath quotes: Once one has seen God, what is the remedy? Once one has seen God, what is the remedy?
Sylvia Plath quotes: Is that life after death - mind living on paper and flesh living in offspring? Is that life after death - mind living on paper and flesh living in offspring?
Sylvia Plath quotes: Read widely of others' experiences, even if it'd be more comfortable to snuggle back in the comforting cotton-wool of blissful ignorance. Read widely of others' experiences, even if it'd be more comfortable to snuggle back in the comforting cotton-wool of blissful ignorance.
Sylvia Plath quotes: Winter is for women The woman still at her knitting, At the cradle of Spanish walnut, Her body a bulb in the cold and too dumb to think. Winter is for women The woman still at her knitting, At the cradle of Spanish walnut, Her body a bulb in the cold and too dumb to think.
Sylvia Plath quotes: Then I decided I would spend the summer writing a novel. That would fix a lot of people. Then I decided I would spend the summer writing a novel.
That would fix a lot of people.
Sylvia Plath quotes: Tireless, tied, as a moon-bound sea Moves Tireless, tied, as a moon-bound sea Moves
Sylvia Plath quotes: How can you be so many women to so many strange people, oh you strange girl? How can you be so many women to so many strange people, oh you strange girl?
Sylvia Plath quotes: Let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences Let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences
Sylvia Plath quotes: The blood jet is poetryThere is no stopping it. The blood jet is poetry
There is no stopping it.
Sylvia Plath quotes: I am silver and exact. I am silver and exact.
Sylvia Plath quotes: You will never win anyone through pity. You must create the right kind of dream, the sober, adult kind of magic: illusion born from disillusion. You will never win anyone through pity. You must create the right kind of dream, the sober, adult kind of magic: illusion born from disillusion.
Sylvia Plath quotes: Kiss me, and you will see how important I am. Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.
Sylvia Plath quotes: Ever since I was small I loved feeling somebody comb my hair. It made me go all sleepy and peaceful. Ever since I was small I loved feeling somebody comb my hair. It made me go all sleepy and peaceful.
Sylvia Plath quotes: If you expect nothing from anybody, you're never disappointed. If you expect nothing from anybody, you're never disappointed.
Sylvia Plath quotes: Hour by hour, day by day, life becomes possible. Hour by hour, day by day, life becomes possible.
Sylvia Plath quotes: The man creates a pseudonym and hides behind it like a worm The man creates a pseudonym and hides behind it like a worm
Sylvia Plath quotes: We stayed at home to write, to consolidate our outstretched selves. We stayed at home to write, to consolidate our outstretched selves.
Sylvia Plath quotes: I must be lean & write & make worlds beside this to live in. I must be lean & write & make worlds beside this to live in.
Sylvia Plath quotes: The big men are all deaf; they don't want to hear the little squeaking as they walk across the street on cleated boots. The big men are all deaf; they don't want to hear the little squeaking as they walk across the street on cleated boots.
Sylvia Plath quotes: I knew you'd decide to be all right again. I knew you'd decide to be all right again.
Sylvia Plath quotes: I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love. I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
Sylvia Plath quotes: She. Silent, fawn-eyed. Clever. She. Silent, fawn-eyed. Clever.
Sylvia Plath quotes: Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing. Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.
Sylvia Plath quotes: I used to pray to recover you. I used to pray to recover you.
Sylvia Plath quotes: God, is this all it is, the ricocheting down the corridor of laughter and tears? Of self-worship and self-loathing? Of glory and disgust? God, is this all it is, the ricocheting down the corridor of laughter and tears? Of self-worship and self-loathing? Of glory and disgust?
Sylvia Plath quotes: Anonymous young men with all-American bone structures. Anonymous young men with all-American bone structures.
Sylvia Plath quotes: You've only got so long to live. You've only got so long to live.
Sylvia Plath quotes: conversing, in low tones, with the asylum librarian, an alumna conversing, in low tones, with the asylum librarian, an alumna
Sylvia Plath quotes: I want to kill myself, to escape from responsiblity, to crawl abjectly back into the womb. I want to kill myself, to escape from responsiblity, to crawl abjectly back into the womb.
Sylvia Plath quotes: The faces were empty as plates, and nobody seemed to be breathing. The faces were empty as plates, and nobody seemed to be breathing.
Sylvia Plath quotes: So you will rot in the ground, and so you say, what the hell? Who cares? But you care, and somehow you don't want to live just one life. So you will rot in the ground, and so you say, what the hell? Who cares? But you care, and somehow you don't want to live just one life.
Sylvia Plath quotes: No day is safe from news of you. No day is safe from news of you.
Sylvia Plath quotes: I do not know who I am tonight. I do not know who I am tonight.
Sylvia Plath quotes: The claw / Of the magnolia, / Drunk on its own secrets, / Asks nothing of life. The claw / Of the magnolia, / Drunk on its own secrets, / Asks nothing of life.
Sylvia Plath quotes: I wondered what terrible thing it was that I had done. I wondered what terrible thing it was that I had done.
Sylvia Plath quotes: I could feel the tears brimming and sloshing in me like water in a glass that is unsteady and too full. This I could feel the tears brimming and sloshing in me like water in a glass that is unsteady and too full. This
Sylvia Plath quotes: England offers new comforts. I could write a novel there. England offers new comforts. I could write a novel there.
Sylvia Plath quotes: I am solitary as grass. What is it I miss?Shall I ever find it, whatever it is? I am solitary as grass. What is it I miss?
Shall I ever find it, whatever it is?
Sylvia Plath quotes: I waited, as if the sea could make my decision for me. I waited, as if the sea could make my decision for me.
Sylvia Plath quotes: I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again. I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my eyes and all is born again.
Sylvia Plath quotes: So learn about life. Cut yourself a big slice with the silver server, a big slice of pie. Open your eyes. Let life happen. So learn about life. Cut yourself a big slice with the silver server, a big slice of pie. Open your eyes. Let life happen.
Sylvia Plath quotes: This is a case without a body.The body does not come into it at all. This is a case without a body.
The body does not come into it at all.

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