"Feel oddly barren. My sickness is when words……" — Sylvia Plath
"Feel oddly barren. My sickness is when words draw in their horns and the physical world refuses to be ordered, recreated, arranged and selected. I am a victim of it then, not a master."
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Sylvia Plath
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520 Quotes by Sylvia Plath
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The woman is perfected. Her dead Body wears the smile of accomplishment.
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Doing all the little tricky things it takes to grow up, step by step, into an anxious and unsettling world.
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Tomorrow I will curse the dawn, but there will be other, earlier nights, and the dawns will be no longer…
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