Secretly, in studies and attics and schoolrooms all over America, people must be writing.

Sylvia Plath

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I am your opus.

Sylvia Plath

Tag: influence lady-lazarus interpersonal

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I wanted to tell her that if only something were wrong with my body it would be fine, I would rather have anything wrong with my body than something wrong with my head, but the idea seemed so involved and wearisome that I didn’t say anything. I only burrowed down further in the bed.

Sylvia Plath

Tag: mental-illness

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I am climbing to my freedom, freedom from fear, freedom from marrying the wrong person, like Buddy Willard, just because of sex, freedom from the Florence Crittenden Homes where all the poor girls go who should have been fitted out like me, because what they did, they would do anyway..

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Si uno hace algo incorrecto en la mesa con cierta arrogancia, como si supiera perfectamente que está haciendo lo que corresponde, puede salir del paso y nadie pensará que es grosero o que ha recibido una pobre educación. Pensarán que uno es original y muy ocurrente.

Sylvia Plath

Tag: manners

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I wanted to crawl in between those black lines of print, the way you crawl through a fence, and go to sleep under that beautiful big green fig-tree.

Sylvia Plath

Tag: words reading books literature

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I am myself. That is not enough.

--from "The Jailer", written 17 October 1962

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I knew something was wrong with me that summer, because all I could think about was the Rosenbergs and how stupid I'd been to buy all those uncomfortable, expensive clothes, hanging limp as fish in my closet, and how all the little successes I'd totted up so happily at college fizzled to nothing outside the slick marble and plate-glass fronts along Madison Avenue.

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I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.

Sylvia Plath

Tag: soul sleep dark sylvia-plath

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The thought that I might kill myself formed in my mind coolly as a tree or a flower.

Sylvia Plath

Tag: death thought suicide sylvia-plath bell-jar

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