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Sylvia Plath

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I dreamed that you bewitched me into bed And sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane. (I think I made you up inside my head.)


— Sylvia Plath


#poetry #reality #dreams

If only I can find him... the man who will be intelligent, yet physically magnetic and personable. If I can offer that combination, why shouldn't I expect it in a man?


— Sylvia Plath


#love #man #intelligence

Not easy to state the change you made. If I'm alive now, I was dead, Though, like a stone, unbothered by it.


— Sylvia Plath


#depression #sadness #sylvia-plath #the-bell-jar #change

we walk the plank with strangers.


— Sylvia Plath


#strangers #death

I'm never going to get married." "You're crazy." Buddy brightened. "You'll change your mind." "No. My mind's made up.


— Sylvia Plath


#married #sylvia-plath #the-bella-jar #change

Dying Is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.


— Sylvia Plath


#depression #poetry #sadness #suicide #art

Privilegiul de a fi oricine își arată și cealaltă față - a presiunii de a fi ca toată lumea și prin urmare - nimeni.


— Sylvia Plath


#libertate #personalitate #sine #dreams

TB is like living with a bomb in your lungs. You just lie around very quietly hoping it won't go off


— Sylvia Plath


#science

What a man wants is is an arrow into the future and what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from.


— Sylvia Plath


#inspirational

Dying Is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.


— Sylvia Plath


#poetry #art






About Sylvia Plath

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Did you know about Sylvia Plath?

Plath took a job as a receptionist in the psychiatric unit of Massachusetts General Hospital and in the evening took creative writing seminars given by poet Robert Lowell (also attended by the writers Anne Sexton and George Starbuck). " She edited The Smith Review and during the summer after her third year of college Plath was awarded a coveted position as guest editor at Mademoiselle magazine during which Sylvia Plath spent a month in New York City. Plath's father was an entomologist and was professor of biology and German at Boston University; he also authored a book about bumblebees.

She married fellow poet Ted Hughes in 1956 and they lived together first in the United States and then England having two children together Frieda and Nicholas. Controversy continues to surround the events of her life and death as well as her writing and legacy.

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