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Tree Quotes by Sylvia Plath
- A bad dream.To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is the bad dream.A bad dream.I…
- I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow, the million moving shapes and cul-de-sacs of shadow. There was shadow in bureau…
- I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy.
- Compared with me, a tree is immortal.
- I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the…
- I wanted to crawl in between those black lines of print, the way you crawl through a fence, and go to sleep under that beautiful…
- The thought that I might kill myself formed in my mind coolly as a tree or a flower.
- So, now I shall talk every night. To myself. To the moon. I shall walk, as I did tonight, jealous of my loneliness, in the…
- This is the light of the mind, cold and planetary. The trees of the mind are black. The light is blue.
- If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter - - - for always there will be greater and lesser persons than…
- I hate Technicolor. Everybody in a Technicolor movie seems to feel obliged to wear a lurid costume in each new scene and to stand around…
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- In a state of grace, the soul is like a well of limpid water, from which flow only streams of clearest crystal.… — Teresa of Avila
- For better or worse, zoos are how most people come to know big or exotic animals. Few will ever see wild penguins… — Diane Ackerman
- Why is geometry often described as 'cold' and 'dry?' One reason lies in its inability to describe the shape of a cloud,… — Benoit Mandelbrot
- The gods made the earth for all men t' share. Only when the kings come with their crowns and steel swords, they… — George R. R. Martin
- On the afternoon of October 19, 1899, I climbed a tall cherry tree and, armed with a saw which I still have,… — Dr Robert H Goddard