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Sylvia Plath

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Sylvia Plath
Age: 30 †
Born: 1932
Born: October 27
Died: 1963
Died: February 11
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Boston
Massachusetts
Victoria Lucas
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Tomorrow I will curse the dawn, but there will be other, earlier nights, and the dawns will be no longer hell laid out in alarms and raw bells and sirens.
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Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline. You've got to go so far, so fast, in such a small space, that you've got to burn away all the peripherals.
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One thing, I try to be honest. And what is revealed is often rather hideously unflattering.
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Oh what a poet I will flay myself into.
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Sometimes I feel so stupid and dull and uncreative that I am amazed when people tell me differently.
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Whenever I'm sad I'm going to die, or so nervous I can't sleep, or in love with somebody I won't be seeing for a week, I slump down just so far and then I say: 'I'll go take a hot bath.
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... stop trying to get me to write about 'decent courageous people' -- read the Ladies' Home Journal for those! ... I believe in going through and facing the worst, not hiding from it.
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I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middle of the surrounding hullabaloo.
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I have no preconceptions. Whatever I see, I swallow immediately. Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike. I am not cruel, only truthful.
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If they substituted the word 'Lust' for 'Love' in the popular songs it would come nearer the truth.
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For the few little successes I may seem to have, there are acres of misgivings and self-doubt.
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Only I wasn't steering anything, not even myself.
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You are the one. Solid the spaces lean on, envious. You are the baby in the barn.
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I've eaten a bag of Green apples. Boarded the train, there's no getting off
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I deserve that, don't I, some sort of blazing love that I can live with.
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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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The moon, also, is merciless: she would drag me Cruelly, being barren. Her radiance scathes me. Or perhaps I have caught her.
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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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Let's face it: I'm scared, scared and frozen. First, I guess, I'm afraid for myself...the old primitive urge for survival. It's getting so I live every moment with terrible intensity.
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I want to kill myself, to escape from responsiblity, to crawl abjectly back into the womb.
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