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I could feel the tears brimming and sloshing in me like water in a glass that is unsteady and too full. — Sylvia Plath
There is no better way to know us Than as two wolves, come separately to a wood. — Ted Hughes
[Sylvia Plath] was now far along a peculiarly solitary road on which not many would risk following her. So it was import — Al Álvarez, The Savage God: A Study of Suicide
How we need that security. How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to giv — Sylvia Plath
I buried my head under the darkness of the pillow and pretended it was night. I couldn't see the point of getting up. I — Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
Writing sharpens life — life enriches writing.
My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you. — Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, bea — Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
The pity is not that there is a myth of Sylvia Plath but that the myth is not simply that of an enormously gifted poet w — Al Álvarez, The Savage God: A Study of Suicide
We are not what we might be — what we are / Outlaws all extrapolation / Beyond the interval of now and here: / White whales are gone with the white ocean.
PLEASE TELL ME YOU KNOW OF SYLVIA PLATHConventions bleed my soulsqueeze me oldwear me grey like a headstone in transit.I — Chila Woychik, On Being a Rat and Other Observations
I must get my soul back from you — I am killing my flesh without it.
It is perhaps fortunate that Sylvia was oblivious to the commotion behind the scenes. Apparently, Henry O. Teltscher had — Elizabeth Winder, Pain, Parties, Work: Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953
I need more than anything right now what is, of course, most impossible, someone to love me, to be with me at night when — Sylvia Plath, The Journals of Sylvia Plath
I don't know how long I kept at it...I felt reasonably safe, streched out on the floor, and lay quite still.It didn't se — Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath is there for me when actual living people upon who I have depended upon my whole life, are not. What I mean — Arlaina Tibensky, And Then Things Fall Apart
Biography is the medium through which the remaining secrets of the famous dead are taken from them and dumped out in ful — Janet Malcolm, The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes