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“الليلُ يسألُ مَن أنا
أنا سرُّهُ القلقُ العميقُ الأسودُ
أنا صمتُهُ المتمرِّدُ
قنّعتُ كنهي بالسكونْ
ولففتُ قلبي بالظنونْ
وبقيتُ ساهمةً هنا
أرنو وتسألني القرونْ
أنا من أكون ؟

الريحُ تسألُ مَنْ أنا
أنا روحُهَا الحيرانُ
أنكرني الزمانْ
أنا مثلها في لا مكان
نبقى نسيرُ ولا انتهاءْ
نبقى نمرُّ ولا بقاءْ
فإذا بلغنا المُنْحَنَى
خلناهُ خاتمةَ الشقاءْ
فإذا فضاءْ !

والدهرُ يسألُ مَنْ أنا
أنا مثله جبارةٌ
أطوي عُصورْ
وأعودُ أمنحُها النشورْ
أنا أخلقُ الماضيْ البعيدْ
من فتنةِ الأملِ الرغيدْ
وأعودُ أدفنُهُ
أنا
لأصوغَ لي أمساً جديدْ
غَدُهُ جليد

والذاتُ تسألُ مَنْ أنا
أنا مثلها حيرَى أحدّقُ في الظلام
لا شيءَ يمنحُني السلامْ
أبقى أسائلُ والجوابْ
سيظَلّ يحجُبُه سرابْ
وأظلّ أحسبُهُ دَنَا
فإذا وصلتُ إليه ذابْ
وخبا وغابْ”
― نازك الملائكة

“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

“I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and a happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and another fig was Ee Gee, the amazing editor, and another fig was Europe and Africa and South America, and another fig was Constantin and Socrates and Attila and a pack of other lovers with queer names and offbeat professions, and another fig was an Olympic lady crew champion, and beyond and above these figs were many more figs I couldn't quite make out. I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? 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, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“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, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.”
― sylvia plath

“I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my eyes and all is born again.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

“And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter— they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences”
― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“Is there no way out of the mind?”
― Sylvia Plath