sylvia plath – Emma Fackenthall

The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. – Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (2000)

Jealousy

“-I am jealous of those who think more deeply, who write better, who draw better, who ski better, who look better, who live better, who love better than I. I am sitting at my desk looking out at a bright antiseptic January day, with an icy wind whipping the sky into a white-and-blue froth. I can see Hopkins House, and the hairy black trees; I can see a girl bicycling along the gray road. I can see the sunlight slanting diagonally across the desk, catching on the iridescent filaments of […]

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10:05 pm

“I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my lids and all is born again.” – Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar (1963)

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“If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.” – Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar (1963)

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“I am learning in peacefulness, lying by myself quietly, as the light lies on these white walls, this bed, these hands. I am nobody; I have nothing to do with explosions.” – Sylvia Plath, Ariel (1965)

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“I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.” – Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (2000)

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“Remember, remember, this is now, and now, Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I’ve taken for granted.” – Sylvia Plath

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“To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream.” – Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar (1963)

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