#sylvia

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I have stitched life into me like a rare organ


Sylvia Plath


#life #sylvia-plath #death

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

Now, lying on my back in bed, I imagined Buddy saying, ‘Do you know what a poem is, Esther?’ ‘No, what?’ I would say. ‘A piece of dust.’ Then just as he was smiling and starting to look proud, I would say, ‘So are the cadavers you cut up. So are the people you think you’re curing. They’re dust as dust as dust. I reckon a good poem lasts a whole lot longer than a hundred of those people put together.’ And of course Buddy wouldn’t have any answer to that, because what I said was true. People were made of nothing so much as dust, and I couldn’t see that doctoring all that dust was a bit better than writing poems people would remember and repeat to themselves when they were unhappy or sick and couldn’t sleep.


Sylvia Plath


#the-bell-jar #imagination

How we need that security. How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this. I need someone to pour myself into.


Sylvia Plath


#desire #love #need #security #sylvia-plath

I think I am mad sometimes.


Sylvia Plath


#journalism

It's rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to describe them as bipolar. Whether it's Hemingway, Van Gogh... Robert Schumann has been mentioned... Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath... some of them with rather grim ends.


Stephen Fry


#appear #been #bipolar #describe #ends

I was born in Boston, Massachusetts on May 16, 1923, the only child of Joel and Sylvia Miller.


Merton Miller


#boston #child #i #i was born #joel

Augustine, Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath are confessional writers and all three make me sick. I have nothing in common with them.


Joni Mitchell


#augustine #common #i #make #me

You marvel at the economy and this choice of words. How many ways can you describe the sky and the moon? After Sylvia Plath, what can you say?


Toni Morrison


#choice #describe #economy #how #many

I was having such a hard time when I made Sylvia. I gave everything I had for that role. It's one or two or three things I'm most proud of in terms of my work. But it was very dark.


Gwyneth Paltrow


#everything #gave #had #hard #hard time