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Sylvia Plath
“Now, lying on my back in bed, I imagined Buddy saying, ‘Do you know what a poem is, Esther?’
‘No, what?’ I would say.
‘A piece of dust.’
Then just as he was smiling and starting to look proud, I would say, ‘So are the cadavers you cut up. So are the people you think you’re curing. They’re dust as dust as dust. I reckon a good poem lasts a whole lot longer than a hundred of those people put together.’
And of course Buddy wouldn’t have any answer to that, because what I said was true. People were made of nothing so much as dust, and I couldn’t see that doctoring all that dust was a bit better than writing poems people would remember and repeat to themselves when they were unhappy or sick and couldn’t sleep.”
Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

Janet Fitch
“It was a shrine. Josie hadn't thought to do that. She had no shrine, no candles. She only knew how to kill the thing she loved”
Janet Fitch, Paint it Black

Edward Thomas
“How nice it would be to be dead if only we could know we were dead. That is what I hate, the not being able to turn round in the grave and to say It is over.”
Edward Thomas, Letters from Edward Thomas to Gordon Bottomley;

Charles Dickens
“Life is made of so many partings welded together”
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

Kurt Cobain
“If my eyes could show my soul, everyone would cry when they saw me smile.”
Kurt Cobain

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