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Place Quotes by Sylvia Plath
- Love set you going like a fat gold watch. The midwife slapped your footsoles, and your bald cry Took its place among the elements.
- What I want back is what I was Before the bed, before the knife, Before the brooch-pin and the salve Fixed me in this parenthesis;…
- That’s one of the reasons I never wanted to get married. The last thing I wanted was infinite security and to be the place an…
- 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…
- I must learn more about these people―try to understand them, put myself in their place. No, instead I am so busy keeping my head above…
- It was like the first time i saw a cadaver. For weeks afterward the cadavers head, or what was left of it - floated up…
- What a man is is an arrow into the future, and what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from.
- If I have not the power to put myself in the place of other people, but must be continually burrowing inward, I shall never be…
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