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Sylvia Plath
Age: 30 †
Born: 1932
Born: October 27
Died: 1963
Died: February 11
Autobiographer
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Essayist
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Poet
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Boston
Massachusetts
Victoria Lucas
Sylvia Plath Hughes
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If you pluck out my heart To find what makes it move, You’ll halt the clock That syncopates our love.
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God has to remind us this isn't heaven by a long shot, so he increases the radios and lethal flies.
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So learn about life. Cut yourself a big slice with the silver server, a big slice of pie. Open your eyes. Let life happen.
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Then I thought, No, I broke it myself. I broke it on purpose to pay myself back for being such a heel.
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The only thing I could think of was turkey neck and turkey gizzards and I felt very depressed.
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I have taken a pill to kill The thin Papery feeling.
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I am too pure for you or anyone.
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And you grit your teeth, despising yourself for your tremulous sensitivity, and wondering how human beings can suffer their individualities to be mercilessly crushed under a machinelike dictatorship, be it of industry, state or organization, all their lives long.
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…beating time along the edge of thought.
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I like people, but to learn about one individual always appeals to me more than anything.
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A dispassionate white sun shone at the summit of the sky. I wanted to hone myself on it till I grew saintly and thin and essential as the blade of a knife.
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I can't think logically about who I am or where I am going. I have been very ecstatic, horribly depressed, shocked, elated, enlightened, and enervated.
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Ironically, Henry James' biography comforts me & I long to make known to him his posthumous reputation he wrote, in pain, gave all his life (which is more than I could think of doing I have Ted, will have children but few friends) & the critics insulted & mocked him, readers didn't read him.
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Let me sit in a flowerpot, The spiders won't notice. My heart is a stopped geranium.
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There I went again, building up a glamorous picture of a man who would love me passionately the minute he met me, and all out of a few prosy nothings.
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God, if ever I have come close to wanting to commit suicide, it is now, with the groggy sleepless blood dragging through my veins, and the air thick and gray with rain ... I fell into bed again this morning, begging for sleep, withdrawing into the dark, warm, fetid escape from action, from responsibility. No good.
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Although, I admit, I desire, Occasionally, some backtalk From the mute sky, I can't honestly complain: A certain minor light may still Lean incandescent Out of kitchen table or chair As if a celestial burning took Possession of the most obtuse objects now and then --
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Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.
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So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.
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I am sure there are things that can't be cured by a good bath but I can't think of one.
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