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Sylvia Plath

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It seemed silly to wash one day when I would only have to wash again the next. It made me tired just to think of it.


— Sylvia Plath


#sadness #depression

The trouble about jumping was that if you didn't pick the right number of stories, you might still be alive when you hit bottom.


— Sylvia Plath


#suicide #death

There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room.


— Sylvia Plath


#depression #depression

I’ll never speak to God again.


— Sylvia Plath


#depression #death

I think I am mad sometimes.


— Sylvia Plath


#journalism

I desire the things which will destroy me in the end.


— Sylvia Plath


#journalism

wear your heart on your skin in this life


— Sylvia Plath


#tattooing #tattoos #dreams

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


— Sylvia Plath


#death #suicide #sylvia-plath #thought #death

What a man wants is a mate and what a woman wants is infinite security,’ and, ‘What a man is is an arrow into the future and a what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from.


— Sylvia Plath


#marriage #men #women #love

I may never be happy, but tonight I am content.


— Sylvia Plath


#journalism






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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