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Sylvia Plath

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


— Sylvia Plath


#world

There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.


— Sylvia Plath


#humor #shared-ordeal #friendship

I talk to God but the sky is empty.


— Sylvia Plath


#god #i #sky #talk

I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.


— Sylvia Plath


#obsession #slavery #kill

We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.


— Sylvia Plath


#friendship #friendship

How we need another soul to cling to.


— Sylvia Plath


#companionship #loneliness #need

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 have a call.


— Sylvia Plath


#art

I have never found anybody who could stand to accept the daily demonstrative love I feel in me, and give back as good as I give.


— Sylvia Plath


#love #love

To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream.


— Sylvia Plath


#ted-hughes #the-bell-jar #dreams

Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.


— Sylvia Plath


#sylvia-plath #beauty






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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