"If you dissect a bird / to diagram……" — Sylvia Plath
"If you dissect a bird / to diagram the tongue, / you'll cut the chord / articulating song."
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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 Articulating Quotes
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I have a hard time articulating the emotional experience of working on a film. Even when I have meetings on…
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We might remind ourselves that criticism is as inevitable as breathing, and that we should be none the worse for…
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From these activists we can learn a crucial lesson: without citizens creating the institutions necessary for facilitating the growth of…
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The new book by Nafeez Ahmed, based on very extensive and deep research, is by far the best on the…
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There is no plateau of resting or stabilising. Once you are interested in how things evolve, you have a kind…
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And when you look at the twentieth-century experiment with collectivism-that Ayn Rand, more than anybody else, did such a good…
— Paul Ryan
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I've been not only articulating the dissatisfaction with Albany, I've been acting on it. I've been very aggressive in bringing…
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You don't change the world by hiding in the woods, wearing a hair shirt, or buying indulgences in the form…
— Alex Steffen
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For values or guiding principles to be truly effective they have to be verbs. It's not "integrity," it's "always do…
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There is one brain organ that is optimised for understanding and articulating logical processes and that is the outer layer…
— Ray Kurzweil
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A poet articulating the dreads and horrors of our time is necessary in order to make readers understand what is…
— Denise Levertov
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They become liberated spaces that can be occupied. A rich indetermination gives them, by means of a semantic rarefaction, the…
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