Sylvia Plath

If they substituted the word 'Lust' for 'Love' in the popular songs it would come nearer the truth. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#song-lyrics #love

So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#plath #life

And the danger is that in this move toward new horizons and far directions, that I may lose what I have now, and not find anything except loneliness ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#leaving #moving #danger

So I began to think maybe it was true that when you were married and had children it was like being brainwashed, and afterward you went about as numb as a slave in a totalitarian state. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#children #marriage #marriage

I began to think vodka was my drink at last. It didn’t taste like anything, but it went straight down into my stomach like a sword swallowers’ sword and made me feel powerful and godlike. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#drinking #drinking

I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#shadow #thing #beauty

Why do we electrocute men for murdering an individual and then pin a purple heart on them for mass slaughter of someone arbitrarily labeled “enemy? ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#purple-heart #war #men

Here I am, a bundle of past recollections and future dreams, knotted up in a reasonably attractive bundle of flesh. I remember what this flesh has gone through; I dream of what it may go through. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#dreams

I must be lean & write & make worlds beside this to live in. ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#writer #writer

I have stitched life into me like a rare organ ↗

— Sylvia Plath

#life #sylvia-plath #death