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Sylvia Plath
Age: 30 †
Born: 1932
Born: October 27
Died: 1963
Died: February 11
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Essayist
Novelist
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Boston
Massachusetts
Victoria Lucas
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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.
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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 had nothing to look forward to.
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The thought that I might kill myself formed in my mind coolly as a tree or a flower.
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Clouds pass and disperse. Are those the faces of love, those pale irretrievables? Is it for such I agitate my heart?
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There was a beautiful time.
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If only a group of people were more important to me than the idea of a Novel, I might begin a novel.
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You walked in, laughing, tears welling confused, mingling in your throat. How can you be so many women to so many people, oh you strange girl?
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But writing poems and letters doesn't seem to do much good.
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Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams.
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All the heat and fear had purged itself. I felt surprisingly at peace. The bell jar hung suspended a few feet above my head. I was open to the circulating air.
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She stared at her reflection in the glossed shop windows as if to make sure, moment by moment, that she continued to exist.
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Read widely of others' experiences, even if it'd be more comfortable to snuggle back in the comforting cotton-wool of blissful ignorance.
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To learn and think to think and live to live and learn: this always, with new insight, new understanding, and new love.
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No day is safe from news of you.
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A fierce brief fusion which dreamers call real, and realists, an illusion an insight like the flight of birds.
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Sunday-the doctor's paradise! Doctors at country clubs, doctors at the seaside, doctors with mistresses, doctors with wives, doctors in church, doctors in yachts, doctors everywhere resolutely being people, not doctors.
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I felt very low. I had been unmasked only that morning by Jay Cee herself, and I felt now that all the uncomfortable suspicions I had about myself were coming true. After nineteen years of running after good marks and prizes and grants of one sort and another, I was letting up, slowing down, dropping clean out of race.
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I have a violence in me that is hot as death-blood.
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If I didn’t think, I’d be much happier.
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I would say everything should be able to come into a poem, but I can't put toothbrushes into a poem, I really can't!
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