"I cannot life for life itself: but for……" — Sylvia Plath
"I cannot life for life itself: but for the words which stay the flux. My life, I feel, will not be lived until there are books and stories which relive it perpetually in time. I forget too easily how it was, and shrink to the horror of the here and now, with no past and no future. Writing breaks open the vaults of the dead and the skies behind which the prophesying angels hide. The mind makes and makes, spinning its web."
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Sylvia Plath
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520 Quotes by Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath has 520 quotes on this site.
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You ask me why I spend my life writing? Do I find entertainment? Is it worthwhile? Above all, does it…
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It was my last act of love (first words to her mother in the hospital after her first major suicide…
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God, if ever I have come close to wanting to commit suicide, it is now, with the groggy sleepless blood…
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The body is amazingly stubborn when it comes to sacrificing itself to the annihilating directions of the mind.
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Last year a friend went dark in a nervous city alone, the sea flashing against his glasses, the sea sorted…
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I guess they call it suicide, but I'm to full to swallow my pride I can't stand losing you The…
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One night she hid the pink cotton scarf from her raincoat in the pillowcase when the nurse came around to…
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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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You have lost all delight in life. Ahead is a large array of blind alleys. You are half-deliberately, half-desperately cutting…
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Look at that ugly dead mask here and do not forget it. It is a chalk mask with dead dry…
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Its visits, like those of angels, short, and far between.
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