So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.
Sylvia PlathHe could not stand. It was not
That he could not thrive, he was born
With everything but the will –
That can be deformed, just like a limb.
Death was more interesting to him.
Life could not get his attention.
Stichwörter: life death suicide plath sheep-1976
Maybe if I could slip into Sylvia's mind, sort out the spices in her rack, alphabetize them and dust them off. Maybe then I'd understand how it's the little things that pull you under.
Kelli Russell AgodonSome things are hard to write about. After something happens to you, you go to write it down, and either you over dramatize it, or underplay it, exaggerate the wrong parts or ignore the important ones. At any rate, you never write it quite the way you want to.
Sylvia PlathStichwörter: writing expression plath sylvia
Feel oddly barren. My sickness is when words draw in their horns and the physical world refuses to be ordered, recreated, arranged and selected. I am a victim of it then, not a master.
Sylvia PlathStichwörter: writing sickness plath
What do you have in mind after you graduate?"
What I always thought I had in mind was getting some big scholarship to graduate
school or a grant to study all over Europe, and then I thought I'd be a professor and write
books of poems or write books of poems and be an editor of some sort. Usually I had
these plans on the tip of my tongue.
"I don't really know," I heard myself say. I felt a deep shock, hearing myself say that, because the minute I said it, I knew it was true.
Stichwörter: the-bell-jar plath sylvia
It was comforting to know I had fallen and could fall no farther.
Sylvia PlathStichwörter: fall plath fallen sylvia the-bella-jar
With that strange knowing that comes over me, like a clairvoyance, I know that I am sure of myself and my enormous and alarmingly timeless love for you; which will always be.
Sylvia PlathStichwörter: love clairvoyance plath
Writing, then, was a substitute for myself: if you don't love me, love my writing
Sylvia PlathStichwörter: experience poetry writing poet writer sylvia-plath poems journals plath
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