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Sylvia Plath

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I woke to the sound of rain.


— Sylvia Plath


#rain #simple #subtle #beauty

daddy daddy you bastard, i'm through


— Sylvia Plath


#love

from private flood. / Drama of each season / plots doom from above, / yet all allergic reason / moves to our minor love


— Sylvia Plath


#trio-of-love-songs #love

brave love, dream not of staunching such strict flame, but come, lean to my wound; burn on, burn on.


— Sylvia Plath


#passion #poetry #dreams

It won't happen yet, Ellen mused, mashing cooked carrots for Jill's lunch. Breakups seldom do. It will unfold slowly, one little tell- tale symptom after another like some awful, hellish flower.


— Sylvia Plath


#love #dreams

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 Plath


#love #plath #love

A psychiatrist is the God of our age. But they cost money.


— Sylvia Plath


#psychiatry #psychology #spirituality #age

And of course I didn't know who would marry me now that I'd been where I had been. I didn't know at all.


— Sylvia Plath


#uncertainty #marriage

Is there no way out of the mind?


— Sylvia Plath


#out #way

How frail the human heart must be - a mirrored pool of thought.


— Sylvia Plath


#heart #how #human #human heart #must






About Sylvia Plath

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Did you know about Sylvia Plath?

Plath took a job as a receptionist in the psychiatric unit of Massachusetts General Hospital and in the evening took creative writing seminars given by poet Robert Lowell (also attended by the writers Anne Sexton and George Starbuck). " She edited The Smith Review and during the summer after her third year of college Plath was awarded a coveted position as guest editor at Mademoiselle magazine during which Sylvia Plath spent a month in New York City. Plath's father was an entomologist and was professor of biology and German at Boston University; he also authored a book about bumblebees.

She married fellow poet Ted Hughes in 1956 and they lived together first in the United States and then England having two children together Frieda and Nicholas. Controversy continues to surround the events of her life and death as well as her writing and legacy.

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