I am still so naïve; I know pretty much what I like and dislike; but please, don’t ask me who I am. A passionate, fragmentary girl, maybe?

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And what is happy? It is a going always on. There is something better to be done than I have done, and spurred by the fair delusion of progress, I will seek to progress, to whip myself on, to more and more- to learning. Always.

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Stars open among the lilies.
Are you not blinded by such expressionless sirens?
This is the silence of astounded souls.

--from "Crossing the Water", written 1962

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Mots clés poetry silence

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I am silver and exact.I have no preconceptions.

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Living with him is like being told a perpetual story: his mind is the biggest, most imaginative I have ever met. I could live in its growing countries forever.

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Mots clés love writing

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And I, love, am a pathological liar.

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What I didn't say was that each time I picked up a German dictionary or a German book, the very sight of those dense, black, barbed-wire letters made my mind shut like a clam.

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Mots clés mental-illness esther-greenwood

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I told him I believed in hell, and that certain people, like me, had to live in hell before they died, to make up for missing out on it after death, since they didn't believe in life after death, and what each person believed happened to him when he died.

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Mots clés death profound hell

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I didn’t want any flowers, I only wanted
To lie with my hands turned up and be utterly empty.
How free it is, you have no idea how free——
The peacefulness is so big it dazes you,
And it asks nothing, a name tag, a few trinkets.
It is what the dead close on, finally; I imagine them
Shutting their mouths on it, like a Communion tablet.

--from "Tulips", written 18 March 1961

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Mots clés peace death religion tulips

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Ready for a new life

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Mots clés life new-leaf new-life bell-jar ready

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