Sylviaplath Quotes

seafoam*
posted a quote
November 12, 2018 11:01pm UTC

Mad Girl’s Love Song
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my lids and all is born again.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)
The stars go waltzing out in blue and red,
And arbitrary blackness gallops in:
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.
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.)
God topples from the sky, hell’s fires fade:
Exit Seraphim and Satan’s men:
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.
I fancied you’d return the way you said,
But I grow old and I forget your name.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)
I should have loved a thunderbird instead;
At least when spring comes they roar back again.
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)

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seafoam*
posted a quote
September 6, 2017 7:33pm UTC

Remember: 5 months is not
ETERNITY. TWO MONTHS IS
noT eTerniTY. even iF
IT LooKs THaT waY now.

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seafoam*
posted a quote
June 4, 2017 7:38pm UTC

i felt dull
AND FLAT
and FULL OF SHATTERED VISIONS.

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seafoam*
posted a quote
March 31, 2017 9:36pm UTC

men Have useD Her meanLY.
SHE WILL EAT THEM♥

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seafoam*
posted a quote
February 9, 2017 9:03pm UTC

“
The round sky goes on minding its business.
Your absence is inconspicuous;
Nobody can tell what I lack.
— PARLIAMENT HILL FIELDS

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seafoam*
posted a quote
February 1, 2017 8:35pm UTC

Is it impossible for you to let something go and have it go whole?
Must you stamp each piece purple,
Must you kill what you can?

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seafoam*
posted a quote
December 22, 2016 11:14pm UTC

Hurl yourself at goals above your head and bear the lacerations that come when you slip and make a fool of yourself. Try always, as long as you have breath in your body, to take the hard way– and work, work, work to build yourself into a rich, continually evolving entity.

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seafoam*
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December 22, 2016 10:49pm UTC

“
There must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them. Whenever I'm sad I'm going to die, or so nervous I can't sleep, or in love with somebody I won't be seeing for a week, I slump down just so far and then I say: “I'll go take a hot bath.”
”

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seafoam*
posted a quote
December 22, 2016 10:05pm UTC

I lean to you, numb as a fossil. Tell me
I'm HeRe.

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seafoam*
posted a quote
December 22, 2016 8:51pm UTC

“
If you pluck out my heart
To find what makes it move,
You’ll halt the clock
That syncopates our love.
— Sylvia Plath

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seafoam*
posted a quote
December 22, 2016 8:46pm UTC

“Why the hell are we conditioned into the smooth strawberry-and-cream Mother-Goose-world, Alice-in-Wonderland fable, only to be broken on the wheel as we grow older and become aware of ourselves as individuals with a dull responsibility in life?”

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seafoam*
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December 22, 2016 8:38pm UTC

There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room. It's like watching Paris from an express caboose heading in the opposite direction – every second the city gets smaller and smaller, only you feel it's really you getting smaller and smaller and lonelier and lonelier, rushing away from all those lights and excitement at about a million miles an hour.
— Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

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seafoam*
posted a quote
December 22, 2016 8:37pm UTC

I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh
wITHouT IT.

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seafoam*
posted a quote
December 22, 2016 8:36pm UTC

Here I am, a bundle of past recollections and future dreams, knotted up in a reasonably attractive bundle of flesh. I remember what this flesh has gone through; I dream of what it may go through.

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seafoam*
posted a quote
December 20, 2016 11:17am UTC

I am jealous of those who think more deeply, who write better, who draw better, who look better, who live better, who love better than I.

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seafoam*
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September 5, 2016 2:34am UTC

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I shut my eyes, and the music broke over me like a rainstorm.

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whatdoidoo
posted a quote
August 21, 2016 10:01pm UTC

“
I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart.
I am, I am, I am.
sylvia plath, the bell jar

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seafoam*
posted a quote
August 21, 2016 4:51pm UTC

I have never found anybody
who could stand to accept
the daily demonstrative love
I feel in me, and give back
as good as I give.

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seafoam*
posted a quote
May 16, 2016 6:16pm UTC

KISS ME & YOU WILL SEE HOW
IMPORTANT I AM.

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seafoam*
posted a quote
March 22, 2016 7:45pm UTC

wHeRe is THe GiRL i was
A YEAR AGO? 2 YEARS AGO?
What would she think of me now?

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