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Author: Sylvia Plath
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  1. Sylvia Plath _ The Unabridged Journals of

    What is my life for and what am I going to do with it? I don't know and I'm afraid. 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.
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  2. Sylvia Plath _ The Unabridged Journals of

    I want to write because I have the urge to excel in one medium of translation and expression of life. I can't be satisfied with the colossal job of merely living. Oh, no, I must order life in sonnets and sestinas and provide a verbal reflector for my 60-watt lighted head.
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  3. Sylvia Plath _ The Bell Jar

    I wanted to be where nobody I knew could ever come.
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  4. Sylvia Plath _ The Collected Poems

    I am too pure for you or anyone. From the poem "Fever 103°", 20 October 1962
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  5. Sylvia Plath _ The Unabridged Journals of

    How can you be so many women to so many strange people, oh you strange girl?
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  6. Sylvia Plath _ The Unabridged Journals of

    Is anyone anywhere happy?
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  7. Sylvia Plath _ The Bell Jar

    At this rate, I'd be lucky if I wrote a page a day.Then I knew what the problem was.I needed experience.How could I write about life when I'd never had a love affair or a baby or even seen anybody die? A girl I knew had just won a prize for a short story about her adventures among the pygmies in Africa. How could I compete with that sort of thing?
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  8. Sylvia Plath _ The Collected Poems

    I Am VerticalBut I would rather be horizontal.I am not a tree with my root in the soilSucking up minerals and motherly loveSo that each March I may gleam into leaf,Nor am I the beauty of a garden bedAttracting my share of Ahs and spectacularly painted,Unknowing I must soon unpetal.Compared with me, a tree is immortalAnd a flower-head not tall, but more startling,And I want the one's longevity and the other's daring.Tonight, in the infinitesimal light of the stars,The trees and flowers have been strewing their cool odors.I walk among them, but none of them are noticing.Sometimes I think that when I am sleepingI must most perfectly resemble them--Thoughts gone dim.It is more natural to me, lying down.Then the sky and I are in open conversation,And I shall be useful when I lie down finally:The the trees may touch me for once, and the flowers have time for me."I Am Vertical", 28 March 1961
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  9. Sylvia Plath _ The Bell Jar

    The trouble about jumping was that if you didn't pick the right number of storeys, you might still be alive when you hit bottom.
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  10. Sylvia Plath _ The Unabridged Journals of

    People or starsRegard me sadly, I disappoint them.From the poem "Sheep in Fog", 2 December 1962, 28 January 1963
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  11. Sylvia Plath _ The Collected Poems

    What did my fingers do before they held him?What did my heart do, with its love?From " Three Women: A Poem for Three Voices", 1962
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  12. Sylvia Plath _ The Bell Jar

    Ever since I was small I loved feeling somebody comb my hair. It made me go all sleepy and peaceful.
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