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Sylvia Plath

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I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.


— Sylvia Plath


#excitement #inspirational #change

I think writers are the most narcissistic people. Well, I musn't say this, I like many of them, a great many of my friends are writers.


— Sylvia Plath


#poets #writers #poets

How we need that security. How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this. I need someone to pour myself into.


— Sylvia Plath


#desire #love #need #security #sylvia-plath

O love, how did you get here? --Nick and the Candlestick


— Sylvia Plath


#poetry #love

There was a beautiful time...


— Sylvia Plath


#beauty #bell-jar #time #beauty

Love is the bone and sinew of my curse.


— Sylvia Plath


#love

I began to see why woman-haters could make such fools of women. Woman-haters were like gods: invulnerable and chock full of power. They descended, and then they disappeared. You could never catch one.


— Sylvia Plath


#men

What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.


— Sylvia Plath


#imagination #death

August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.


— Sylvia Plath


#fall #nature #seasons #summer #time

Ready for a new life


— Sylvia Plath


#life #new-leaf #new-life #ready #life






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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