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Sylvia Plath


American
October 27, 1932
Poet
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What I want back is what I was.


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Tags: Want Back
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Indecision and reveries are the anesthetics of constructive action.


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Poetry at its best can do you a lot of harm.


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Tags: Best Poetry You
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Mountains terrify me - they just sit about; they are so proud.


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Tags: Me About Just
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When you are insane, you are busy being insane - all the time.


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Tags: Time You Being
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Kiss me and you will see how important I am.


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Tags: You Me Will
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How frail the human heart must be - a mirrored pool of thought.


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Tags: How Thought Must
There is something suspect, especially in America, about people who don't have ten-year plans for a career or at least a regular job.
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Tags: People About Who
I saw the gooseflesh on my skin. I did not know what made it. I was not cold. Had a ghost passed over? No, it was the poetry.
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Tags: Poetry Know Had
I want to live and feel all the shades, tones, and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.
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I see in Cambridge, particularly among the women dons, a series of such grotesques! It is almost like a caricature series from Dickens to see our head table at Newnham.
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Tags: Women Like Our
Apparently, the most difficult feat for a Cambridge male is to accept a woman not merely as feeling, not merely as thinking, but as managing a complex, vital interweaving of both.
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Tags: Most Woman Both
And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
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I love people. Everybody. I love them, I think, as a stamp collector loves his collection. Every story, every incident, every bit of conversation is raw material for me.
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Tags: People Me Think
The sea was our main entertainment. When company came, we set them before it on rugs, with thermoses and sandwiches and colored umbrellas, as if the water - blue, green, gray, navy or silver as it might be - were enough to watch.
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Tags: Our Them Were
The next five months are grim ones. I always feel sorry to have the summertime change, with the dark evenings closing in mid-afternoon, and will try to lay in some physical comforts these months - the best insurance against gloominess for me.
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Tags: Best Change Me
I think the sea swallowed dozens of tea sets - tossed in abandon off liners or consigned to the tide by jilted brides. I collected a shiver of china bits, with borders of larkspur and birds or braids of daisies. No two patterns ever matched.
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I must discipline myself. I must be imaginative and create plots, knit motives, probe dialogue - rather than merely trying to record descriptions and sensations. The latter is pointless, without purpose, unless it is later to be synthesized into a story. The latter is also a rather pronounced symptom of an oversensitive and unproductive ego.
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Tags: Than Myself Also
I hope to submit to the little pamphlet magazines here 'freelance' and perhaps shall join the Labour Club, as I really want to become informed on politics, and it seems to have an excellent program. I am definitely not a Conservative, and the Liberals are too vague and close to the latter.
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Mother believed that I should have an enormous amount of sleep, and so I was never really tired when I went to bed. This was the best time of day, when I could lie in the vague twilight, drifting off to sleep, making up dreams inside my head the way they should go.
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Tags: Time Best Dreams