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Life was not to be sitting in hot amorphic leisure in my backyard idly writing or not writing, as the spirit moved me. I — Sylvia Plath
I have stitched life into me like a rare organ — Sylvia Plath
Even amongst fierce flames/ The golden lotus can be planted. — Bhagavid-Gita
The thought that I might kill myself formed in my mind coolly as a tree or a flower. — Sylvia Plath
Not easy to state the change you made.If I'm alive now, I was dead,Though, like a stone, unbothered by it. — Sylvia Plath, The Collected Poems
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead — I lift my eyes and all is born again.
Writing, then, was a substitute for myself: if you don't love me, love my writing & love me for my writing. It is also m — Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
[Short Talk on Sylvia Plath] Did you see her mother on television? She said plain, burned things. She said I thought it — Anne Carson
We have conversations with each other most nights - Sylvia Plath and me! — Avijeet Das
Sylvia Plath and I met a long time ago. A really long time ago. Was it a summer day? No! It was a wintry November mornin — Avijeet Das
We have conversations most nights, Sylvia Plath and me. On these cold wintry nights with our coffee mugs in hand, we tal — Avijeet Das
Wars, wars, wars': reading up on the region I came across one moment when quintessential Englishness had in fact interse — Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir
Sylvia was an early literary manifestation of a young woman who takes endless selfies and posts them with vicious captio — Alana Massey, All the Lives I Want: Essays About My Best Friends Who Happen to Be Famous Strangers
I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me. — Sylvia Plath, The Collected Poems
My mind is killing me”— The Glass Child, Stuck In My Mind — Charlotte Eriksson
So what do you think?’ He asked, holding up the book.‘I think Salinger is a closet paedophile,’ I replied placidly and w — J.D. Gallagher
if a man chooses to be promiscuous, he may still turn up his nose at promiscuity. He may still demand a woman be faithfu — Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
The promise of Plath's work was that a woman could de-fang the charges of hysteria by owning them. Unlike Solanas, who s — Sady Doyle, Trainwreck: The Women We Love to Hate, Mock, and Fear... and Why
When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn't know. — Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
I wished I hadn’t majored in women filling their pockets with stones and sticking their heads into ovens. Maybe tomorrow — Kat Clark