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My mother had taught shorthand and typing to support us since my father died, and secretly she hated it and hated him for dying and leaving no money because he didn't trust life insurance salesmen.
- Sylvia Plath
#Father
#Life
#Money
#Support
#Trust
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
#Discipline
#Fast
#Feel
#Poetry
#Space
My mother's face floated to mind, a pale, reproachful moon, at her last and first visit to the asylum since my twentieth birthday. A daughter in an asylum! I had done that to her. Still, she had obviously decided to forgive me.
- Sylvia Plath
#Birthday
#Daughter
#Face
#Mind
#Moon
The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it.
- Sylvia Plath
#Blood
#Jet
#Poetry
#Stopping
Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.
- Sylvia Plath
#Art
#Dying
#Everything
#Hell
#Real
Now and then, when I grow nostalgic about my ocean childhood - the wauling of gulls and the smell of salt, somebody solicitous will bundle me into a car and drive me to the nearest briny horizon.
- Sylvia Plath
#Car
#Childhood
#Grow
#Horizon
#Me
But life is long. And it is the long run that balances the short flare of interest and passion.
- Sylvia Plath
#Life
#Long
#Passion
#Short
#Wisdom
If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.
- Sylvia Plath
#Back
#Days
#Hell
#Rest
#Time
Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.
- Sylvia Plath
#Because
#Everything
#Find
#Nothing
Wear your heart on your skin in this life.
- Sylvia Plath
#Heart
#Life
#Skin
#Wear
#Your
Indecision and reveries are the anesthetics of constructive action.
- Sylvia Plath
#Action
#Constructive
#Indecision
It is as if my life were magically run by two electric currents: joyous positive and despairing negative - whichever is running at the moment dominates my life, floods it.
- Sylvia Plath
#Life
#Moment
#My Life
#Positive
#Two
I am a victim of introspection.
- Sylvia Plath
#Am
#I Am
#Introspection
#Victim
I want to live and feel all the shades, tones, and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.
- Sylvia Plath
#Experience
#I Am
#Life
#Live
#My Life
There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.
- Sylvia Plath
#Bath
#Cure
#Hot
#Know
#Things
Is there no way out of the mind?
- Sylvia Plath
#Mind
#Out
#Way
If you expect nothing from anybody, you're never disappointed.
- Sylvia Plath
#Disappointed
#Expect
#Never
#Nothing
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.
- Sylvia Plath
#Born
#Dead
#Drops
#Eyes
#World
Today is the first of August. It is hot, steamy and wet. It is raining. I am tempted to write a poem. But I remember what it said on one rejection slip: 'After a heavy rainfall, poems titled 'Rain' pour in from across the nation.'
- Sylvia Plath
#Hot
#I Am
#Rain
#Remember
#Today
In London the day after Christmas (Boxing Day), it began to snow: my first snow in England. For five years, I had been tactfully asking, 'Do you ever have snow at all?' as I steeled myself to the six months of wet, tepid gray that make up an English winter. 'Ooo, I do remember snow,' was the usual reply, 'when I were a lad.'
- Sylvia Plath
#Boxing
#Christmas
#Day
#Myself
#Remember
Kiss me and you will see how important I am.
- Sylvia Plath
#I Am
#Important
#Kiss
#Me
#Romantic
I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.
- Sylvia Plath
#Deep
#Heart
#I Am
#Old
#Peace
And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
- Sylvia Plath
#Creativity
#Guts
#Imagination
#Life
#Way
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