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Sylvia Plath

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I wish to cry. Yet, I laugh, and my lipstick leaves a red stain like a bloody crescent moon on the top of the beer can.


— Sylvia Plath


#sadness #melancholy

I cut you out because I couldn't stand being a passing fancy.


— Sylvia Plath


#relationships #love

It is as if my life were magically run by two electric currents: joyous positive and despairing negative--which ever is running at the moment dominates my life, floods it.


— Sylvia Plath


#mental-health #mood-instability #life

Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it


— Sylvia Plath


#poetry #love

I wondered what I thought I was burying.


— Sylvia Plath


#inspirational

It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York.


— Sylvia Plath


#first-sentence

A man's world is different from a woman's world and a man's emotions are different from a woman's emotions and only marriage can bring the two different sets of emotions together properly.


— Sylvia Plath


#marriage #relationship #marriage

My flesh winced, in cowardice, from such a death.


— Sylvia Plath


#death

What I didn't say was that each time I picked up a German dictionary or a German book, the very sight of those dense, black, barbed-wire letters made my mind shut like a clam.


— Sylvia Plath


#mental-illness #mental-illness

Clouds pass and disperse. Are those the faces of love, those pale irretrievables? Is it for such I agitate my heart?


— Sylvia Plath


#heart #love #poetry #love






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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