because she thinks she loves them, because she’s sure, without a doubt, that the loud roaring things will love her back, her soft small self alive with desire to share her goddamn enthusiasm,
“Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of doors by somebody I do not know.”
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“Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.”
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“A Word is Dead
A word is dead
When it is said,
Some say.
I say it just
Begins to live
That day.”
― The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
A word is dead
When it is said,
Some say.
I say it just
Begins to live
That day.”
― The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
“Nature is a haunted house--but Art--is a house that tries to be haunted.”
― The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
― The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
“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.”
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
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