"I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the……" — Sylvia Plath
"I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas, as if whatever it was the pine boughs and the candles and the silver and gilt-ribboned presents and the birch-log fires and the Christmas turkey and the carols at the piano promised never came to pass."
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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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More Birch Quotes
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one of 27 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beechtree, or a…
— Henry David Thoreau
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I wish you were that birch rising from the clump behind you, and I the gray oak alongside.
— Donald Hall
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I put quite a few trees in last autumn. A lot of silver birch and a couple of native trees…
— Sean Bean
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The John Birch Society is Communism's greatest ally. With its help we will divide and confuse the American people until…
— Nikita Khrushchev
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One will never again look at a birch tree, after the Robert Frost poem, in exactly the same way.
— Paul Muldoon
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Criticism is properly the rod of divination: a hazel switch for the discovery of buried treasure, not a birch twig…
— Arthur Symons
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In a true you-and-I relationship, we are present mindfully, nonintrusively, the way we are present with things in nature.We do…
— David Richo
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Much can they praise the trees so straight and high, The sailing pine,the cedar proud and tall, The vine-prop elm,…
— Edmund Spenser
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In Paul Friedrich's book Proto-Indo-European Trees he identifies the "semantic primitives" of the Indo-European tribe of languages through a group…
— Gary Snyder
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What of miniature boats constructed of birch bark and fallen leaves, launched onto cold water clear as air? How many…
— Paul Harding
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If only we could touch the things of this world at their center, if we could only hear tiny leaves…
— Sam Hamill
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Put all the pervs in jail, bring back the birch and cat-o-nine tails.
— Ray Davies
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