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Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath
American Poet
Born: Oct 27, 1932
Died: Feb 11, 1963
First Life Me Think Will You
Related authors: Edgar Allan Poe Emily Dickinson Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Maya Angelou Ralph Waldo Emerson Robert Frost T. S. Eliot Walt Whitman
I am too pure for you or anyone. Sylvia Plath
You Pure Too Am Anyone
Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline. You've got to go so far so fast in such a small space; you've got to burn away all the peripherals. Sylvia Plath
You Discipline Space Tyrannical Small Poetry Feel Got Go Burn Far Away Fast
Arrogant, I think I have written lines which qualify me to be The Poetess of America (as Ted will be The Poet of England and her dominions). Sylvia Plath
Me Will Poet Arrogant Think Written Qualify Lines America Which England Her Ted
Didn't you know I'm going to be the greatest, most entertaining author and artist in the world? Well, don't feel badly, I didn't either! Sylvia Plath
You World Entertaining Badly Feel Know Most Well Greatest Author Artist Going Either
I see in Cambridge, particularly among the women dons, a series of such grotesques! It is almost like a caricature series from Dickens to see our head table at Newnham. Sylvia Plath
Women Caricature Our Table See Head Almost Like Particularly Cambridge Dickens Series Among
I looked on my stomach and saw Frieda Rebecca, white as flour with the cream that covers new babies, funny little dark squiggles of hair plastered over her head, with big, dark-blue eyes. Sylvia Plath
Funny Eyes Dark Hair Big White Babies Saw Head Over New Looked Covers Stomach Little Cream Her Flour
Every woman adores a Fascist. Sylvia Plath
Woman Every Adore Fascist
I saw the first of the 7-mile-long column appear - red and orange and green banners, 'Ban the Bomb!' etc., shining and swaying slowly. Absolute silence. I found myself weeping to see the tan, dusty marchers, knapsacks on their backs - Quakers and Catholics, Africans and whites, Algerians and French - 40 percent were London housewives. Sylvia Plath
Myself Silence First Saw Backs See London Slowly Percent Absolute Weeping Column Red Quakers French Housewives Catholics Tan Were Shining Ban Green Orange Dusty African Banner Etc Whites Appear Found Bomb
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
A baby! I hated babies. I, who for two and a half years had been the center of a tender universe, felt the axis wrench and a polar chill immobilize my bones. I would be a bystander, a museum mammoth. Sylvia Plath
Chill Half Universe Babies Baby Would Would-Be Hated Wrench Tender Had Polar Half Years Felt Been Years Mammoth Center Who Axis Two Museum Bones
Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing. Sylvia Plath
Writing Nothing Unpublished Like Pile Stinks
I've begun to think like a Jew, to feel like a Jew. Sylvia Plath
Think Feel Like Begun Jew
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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