“All I want is blackness. Blackness and silence.
(The actual Sylvia Plath quote from "The Moon and the Yew Tree" is:
"And the message of the yew tree is blackness –
blackness and silence.")”
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(The actual Sylvia Plath quote from "The Moon and the Yew Tree" is:
"And the message of the yew tree is blackness –
blackness and silence.")”
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“Don't think about making art, just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it's good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art.”
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“Sunday, the worst god-damned day of them all.”
― Ham on Rye
― Ham on Rye
“9:09 in the morning, the taste of liquor and cigarettes, no police, no lovers, walking the streets, this poem, this city, closing its doors, barricaded, almost empty, mournful without tears, aging without pity, the hardrock mountains, the ocean like a lavender flame, a moon destitute of greatness, a small music from broken windows… a poem is a city, a poem is a nation, a poem is the world…”
― The Pleasures of the Damned
― The Pleasures of the Damned
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