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Sylvia Plath
American
Poet
Born:
Oct 27
,
1932
Died:
Feb 11
,
1963
First
Life
Me
Think
Will
You
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Kiss me and you will see how important I am.
Sylvia Plath
Me
You
Will
Kiss
Important
See
How
Am
Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.
Sylvia Plath
Nothing
Everything
Dangerously
Ourselves
Find
Perhaps
Because
Close
Wanting
What I want back is what I was.
Sylvia Plath
Back
Want
It is as if my life were magically run by two electric currents: joyous positive and despairing negative - whichever is running at the moment dominates my life, floods it.
Sylvia Plath
Positive
Life
Negative
My Life
Despairing
Run
Running
Joyous
Were
Currents
Electric
Moment
Floods
Two
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.
Sylvia Plath
Life
You
Creativity
Enemy
Improvise
Imagination
Everything
Way
Worst
Outgoing
About
Guts
Self-Doubt
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.
Sylvia Plath
Life
Experience
My Life
Live
Possible
Physical
Shades
Horribly
Mental
Variations
Feel
Limited
Am
Want
Tones
I am a victim of introspection.
Sylvia Plath
Victim
Introspection
Am
When you are insane, you are busy being insane - all the time.
Sylvia Plath
Time
You
Busy
Insane
Being
I remember that as I was writing a poem on 'Snow' when I was eight, I said aloud, 'I wish I could have the ability to write down the feelings I have now when I am little, because when I grow up, I will know how to write, but I will have forgotten what being little feels like.'
Sylvia Plath
Writing
Remember
Will
Wish
Feelings
Down
Ability
Poem
Could
Write
Feels
Like
Aloud
Know
Because
Said
How
Am
Up
Snow
Forgotten
Being
Eight
Little
Grow
Grow Up
Now
How frail the human heart must be - a mirrored pool of thought.
Sylvia Plath
Heart
Thought
Pool
Human Heart
Frail
Must
How
Human
Freedom is not of use to those who do not know how to employ it.
Sylvia Plath
Freedom
Those
Employ
Know
How
Use
Who
Wear your heart on your skin in this life.
Sylvia Plath
Life
Heart
Skin
Wear
Your
Indecision and reveries are the anesthetics of constructive action.
Sylvia Plath
Action
Indecision
Constructive
Reverie
How we need another soul to cling to.
Sylvia Plath
Soul
Another
How
Cling
Need
I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad.
Sylvia Plath
Sad
Happy
Active
Constantly
Passive
Being
Choice
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.
Sylvia Plath
Made
Skin
Cold
Saw
Ghost
Poetry
Had
Over
Know
Passed
Did
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.
Sylvia Plath
Myself
Ego
Discipline
Symptom
Unless
Later
Latter
Plots
Must
Record
Unproductive
Rather
Purpose
Pointless
Merely
Knit
Also
Without
Dialogue
Motives
Than
Trying
Probe
Sensations
Story
Create
Descriptions
Imaginative
Everybody had to go to some college or other. A business college, a junior college, a state college, a secretarial college, an Ivy League college, a pig farmer's college. The book first, then the work.
Sylvia Plath
Work
Business
Book
College
First
Other
Everybody
State
Secretarial
Some
Had
League
Pig
Go
Ivy
Ivy League
Junior
Junior College
Then
Farmer
What a man is is an arrow into the future, and what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from.
Sylvia Plath
Future
Man
Woman
Arrow
Off
Shoots
Place
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.
Sylvia Plath
Politics
Hope
Conservative
Freelance
Become
Submit
Club
Too
Liberals
Definitely
Latter
Magazines
Seems
Shall
Join
Excellent
Perhaps
Am
Close
Labour
Want
Informed
Little
Really
Here
Pamphlet
Program
Vague
I think that personal experience is very important, but certainly it shouldn't be a kind of shut-box and mirror-looking, narcissistic experience. I believe it should be relevant, and relevant to the larger things, the bigger things, such as Hiroshima and Dachau and so on.
Sylvia Plath
Experience
Important
Believe
Think
Relevant
Kind
Narcissistic
Hiroshima
Very
Personal
Personal Experience
Bigger
Should
Certainly
Larger
Things
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