Sylvia Plath quotes - page 14

I thought a spectacular change would come over me the day I crossed the boundary line. (Sylvia Plath)
People or stars Regard me sadly, I disappoint them. From the poem "Sheep in Fog", 2 December 1962, 28 January 1963. View quote
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I am too pure for you or anyone. From the poem "Fever 103°", 20 October 1962. View quote
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Backward we traveled to reclaim the day Before we fell, like Icarus, undone; All we find are altars in decay And profane words scrawled black across the sun. --From the poem "Doom of the Exiles", written 16 April 1954. View quote
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Is it the sea you hear in me, Its dissatisfactions? Or the voice of nothing, that was you madness? View quote
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O love, how did you get here? --Nick and the Candlestick. View quote
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God, who am I? View quote
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I am I am I am. View quote
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Ready for a new life. View quote
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I want to talk to everybody I can as deeply as I can. I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night. View quote
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What obsession do men have for destruction and murder? Who do we electrocute men for murdering an individual and then pin a purple heart on them for mass slaughter of someone arbitrarily labeled 'enemy? (Sylvia Plath)
I couldn't stand the idea of a woman having to have a single pure life and a man being able to have a double life, one pure and one not. View quote
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Stupid pupil, it has to take everything in. View quote
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I self-paralyze myself & wonder what I've got in my head. View quote
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I hated to serve men in any way. View quote
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It's a tango." Marco maneuvered me out among the dancers. "I love tangos." "I can't dance." "You don't have to dance. I'll do that dancing." Marco hooked an arm around my waist and jerked me up against his dazzling white suit. Then he said, "Pretend you are drowning." I shut my eyes, and the music broke over me like a rainstorm. Marco's leg slid forward against mine and my leg slid back and I seemed to be riveted against him, limb for limb, moving as he moved, without any will or knowledge of my own, and after a while I thought, "It doesn't take two to dance, it only takes one," and I let myself blow and bend like a tree in the wind. "What did I tell you? View quote
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Widow. The word consumes itself. View quote
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Apparently, the most difficult feat for a Cambridge male is to accept a woman not merely as feeling, not merely as thinking, but as managing a complex, vital interweaving of both. View quote
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But life is long. And it is the long run that balances the short flare of interest and passion. View quote
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I love people. Everybody. I love them, I think, as a stamp collector loves his collection. Every story, every incident, every bit of conversation is raw material for me. View quote
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I am too pure for you or anyone. (Sylvia Plath)
Today is the first of August. It is hot, steamy and wet. It is raining. I am tempted to write a poem. But I remember what it said on one rejection slip: 'After a heavy rainfall, poems titled 'Rain' pour in from across the nation.' View quote
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I think that personal experience is very important, but certainly it shouldn't be a kind of shut-box and mirror-looking, narcissistic experience. I believe it should be relevant, and relevant to the larger things, the bigger things, such as Hiroshima and Dachau and so on. View quote
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A little thing, like children putting flowers in my hair, can fill up the widening cracks in my self-assurance like soothing lanolin. View quote
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Instead of the world being divided up into Catholics and Protestants or Republicans and Democrats or white men and black men or even men and women, I saw the world divided into people who had slept with somebody and people who hadn't, and this seemed the only really significant difference between one person and another. I thought a spectacular change would come over me the day I crossed the boundary line. View quote
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