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All Quotes by author - Sylvia Plath
" A baby! I hated babies. I, who for two and a half years had been the center of a tender universe, felt the axis wrench and a polar chill immobilize my bones. I would be a bystander, a museum mammoth. "
Chill
Half
Museum
" A little thing, like children putting flowers in my hair, can fill up the widening cracks in my self-assurance like soothing lanolin. "
Flowers
Hair
Like
" And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. "
Life
Creativity
Imagination
" Apparently, the most difficult feat for a Cambridge male is to accept a woman not merely as feeling, not merely as thinking, but as managing a complex, vital interweaving of both. "
Feeling
Accept
Thinking
" Arrogant, I think I have written lines which qualify me to be The Poetess of America (as Ted will be The Poet of England and her dominions). "
Me
Think
America
" Believe in some beneficent force beyond your own limited self. God, god, god: where are you? I want you, need you: the belief in you and love and mankind. "
God
Self
You
" But life is long. And it is the long run that balances the short flare of interest and passion. "
Long
Life
Short
" Didn't you know I'm going to be the greatest, most entertaining author and artist in the world? Well, don't feel badly, I didn't either! "
You
World
Know
" Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call. "
You
Say
Real
" Everybody had to go to some college or other. A business college, a junior college, a state college, a secretarial college, an Ivy League college, a pig farmer's college. The book first, then the work. "
Work
Farmer
College
" Every woman adores a Fascist. "
Every
Fascist
Woman
" Excellent teachers showered on to us like meteors: Biology teachers holding up human brains, English teachers inspiring us with a personal ideological fierceness about Tolstoy and Plato, Art teachers leading us through the slums of Boston, then back to the easel to hurl public school gouache with social awareness and fury. "
Boston
School
Teachers
" For a time, I believed not in God nor Santa Claus, but in mermaids. They seemed as logical and possible to me as the brittle twig of a seahorse in the zoo aquarium or the skates lugged up on the lines of cursing Sunday fishermen - skates the shape of old pillowslips with the full, coy lips of women. "
Sunday
Time
Women
" Freedom is not of use to those who do not know how to employ it. "
Those
How
Who
" How frail the human heart must be - a mirrored pool of thought. "
Heart
Human Heart
Thought
" How we need another soul to cling to. "
How
Another
Need
" I am a victim of introspection. "
Introspection
Am
I Am
" I am a writer... I am a genius of a writer; I have it in me. I am writing the best poems of my life; they will make my name. "
Best
I Am
Writing
" I am too pure for you or anyone. "
Am
Too
You
" I don't believe that the meek will inherit the earth; The meek get ignored and trampled. "
Get
Believe
Will
" I felt proud that the baby's first real adventure should be as a protest against the insanity of world annihilation. Already a certain percentage of unborn children are doomed by fallout, and no one knows the cumulative effects of what is already poisoning the air and sea. "
Adventure
Baby
World
" If I have not the power to put myself in the place of other people, but must be continually burrowing inward, I shall never be the magnanimous creative person I wish to be. Yet I am hypnotized by the workings of the individual, alone, and am continually using myself as a specimen. "
Myself
Alone
People
" If I tried to describe my personality, I'd start to gush about living by the ocean half my life and being brought up on 'Alice in Wonderland' and believing in magic for years and years. "
My Life
Life
Start
" If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days. "
Rest
Flying
Back
" If you expect nothing from anybody, you're never disappointed. "
Nothing
You
Never
" I have a visual imagination. "
Visual
Imagination
" I have felt great advances in my poetry, the main one being a growing victory over word nuances and a superfluity of adjectives. "
Growing
Poetry
Great
" I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. "
Passive
Sad
Active
" I hope to submit to the little pamphlet magazines here 'freelance' and perhaps shall join the Labour Club, as I really want to become informed on politics, and it seems to have an excellent program. I am definitely not a Conservative, and the Liberals are too vague and close to the latter. "
Hope
Want
Politics
" I looked on my stomach and saw Frieda Rebecca, white as flour with the cream that covers new babies, funny little dark squiggles of hair plastered over her head, with big, dark-blue eyes. "
Dark
Hair
Eyes
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