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“Winged lovely moments, can I call you home?”
― Collected Poems 1908-1956
― Collected Poems 1908-1956
“Either you deal with what is the reality, or you can be sure that the reality is going to deal with you.”
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“Remember about the shadow of past knowledge. Write about your own experience. By that experience someone else may be a bit richer some day. Read widely of others experience in thought and action; stretch to others even though it hurts and strains and would be more comfortable to snuggle back in the comforting cotton-wool of blissful ignorance! 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, the Spartan way and work, work, work to build yourself into a rich, continually evolving entity!”
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“I was only a folk singer for about two years…. By that time, it wasn’t really folk music anymore. It was some new American phenomenon. Later, they called it singer/songwriters. Or art songs, which I liked best. Some people get nervous about that word. Art. They think it’s a pretentious word from the giddyap. To me, … the word art has never lost its vitality.”
― The Music of Joni Mitchell
― The Music of Joni Mitchell
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