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Sylvia Plath
Age: 30 †
Born: 1932
Born: October 27
Died: 1963
Died: February 11
Autobiographer
Diarist
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Boston
Massachusetts
Victoria Lucas
Sylvia Plath Hughes
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I am so hungry for a big smashing creative burgeoning burdened love.
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Eternity bores me, I never wanted it.
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How we need another soul to cling to.
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It is a feeling that no matter what the ideas or conduct of others, there is a unique rightness and beauty to life which can be shared in openness, in wind and sunlight, with a fellow human being who believes in the same basic principles.
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What is so real as the cry of a child?
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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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The thought that I might kill myself formed in my mind coolly as a tree or a flower.
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Well, I know now. I know a little more how much a simple thing like a snowfall can mean to a person
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I have been holding a dialogue with myself and girding myself to stand fast without running.
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For me, poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose.
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If I rest, if I think inward, I go mad.
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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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I do not love I do not love anybody except myself. That is a rather shocking thing to admit.
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Oh what a poet I will flay myself into.
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I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.
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I dream too much, work too little.
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Pretty soon, the only doubt in my mind was the precise time and method of committing suicide. The only alternative I could see was an eternity of hell for the rest of my life in a mental hospital, and I was going to use my last ounce of free choice and choose a quick clean ending.
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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.
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If only I knew what I wanted I could try to see about getting it.
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I like people too much or not at all. I've got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.
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