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Sylvia Plath

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I am too pure for you or anyone.


— Sylvia Plath


#anyone #i #i am #pure #too

Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing.


— Sylvia Plath


#nothing #pile #stinks #unpublished #writing

I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.


— Sylvia Plath


#born #dead #drops #eyes #i

The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it.


— Sylvia Plath


#jet #poetry #stopping

But life is long. And it is the long run that balances the short flare of interest and passion.


— Sylvia Plath


#flare #interest #life #long #long run

There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.


— Sylvia Plath


#cure #few #few things #hot #i

I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.


— Sylvia Plath


#bray #breath #deep #deep breath #heart

Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.


— Sylvia Plath


#call #could #dying #else #everything

Kiss me and you will see how important I am.


— Sylvia Plath


#how #i #i am #important #kiss

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.


— Sylvia Plath


#apparently #both #cambridge #complex #difficult






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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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