29 Quotes About Sylvia-plath
- Author Terrance Hayes
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My hunch is that Sylvia Plath was not Especially fun company. A drama queen, thin-skinned, And skittery, she thought her poems were ordinary.
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- Author Arlaina Tibensky
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Sylvia Plath is there for me when actual living people upon who I have depended upon my whole life, are not. What I mean to say is, without her words, I'd be exponentially more messed up than I am already.
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- Author Kat Clark
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I wished I hadn’t majored in women filling their pockets with stones and sticking their heads into ovens. Maybe tomorrow the pinhole would widen and I would want to be a marine biologist.
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- Author Sylvia Plath
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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.
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- Author Elizabeth Winder
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It is perhaps fortunate that Sylvia was oblivious to the commotion behind the scenes. Apparently, Henry O. Teltscher had written a letter to Betsy Talbot Blackwell, warning her that one of her guest editors was on the brink of a nervous breakdown.
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- Author Alana Massey
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Sylvia was an early literary manifestation of a young woman who takes endless selfies and posts them with vicious captions calling herself fat and ugly. She is at once her own documentarian and the reflexive voice that says she is unworthy of documentation. She sends her image into the world to be seen, discussed, and devoured, proclaiming that the ordinariness or ugliness of her existence does not remove her right to have it.
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- Author Rob Jovanovic
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Despite having two young children to mother, [Sylvia Plath] seemed inept at the basics of life, always needing help.
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- Author Ted Hughes
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So this was the reverse of dazzling Nauset.The flip of the coin - the flip of an ocean fallenDream-face down. And here, at my feet, in the suds,The other face, the real, staring upwards.
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- Author Erica Garza
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I felt more like Sylvia Plath or T.S. Eliot, an expat whose real mission was to escape.
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