“I want to taste and glory in each day, and never be afraid to experience pain; and never shut myself up in a numb core of nonfeeling, or stop questioning and criticizing life and take the easy way out. To learn and think: to think and live; to live and learn: this always, with new insight, new understanding, and new love.”
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“I like people too much or not at all. I've got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.”
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“They had to call and call
And pick the worms off me like sticky pearls.
--From the poem "Lady Lazarus", written 23-29 October 1962”
― Ariel
And pick the worms off me like sticky pearls.
--From the poem "Lady Lazarus", written 23-29 October 1962”
― Ariel
“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.”
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“Oh, something is there, waiting for me. Perhaps someday the revelation will burst in upon me and I will see the other side of this monumental grotesque joke. And then I'll laugh. And then I'll know what life is.”
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
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