“The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.”
― Meditations
― Meditations
“I turned silences and nights into words. What was unutterable, I wrote down. I made the whirling world stand still.”
― A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat
― A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat
“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.”
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
― The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“If I were the rain. . . that binds together the Earth and the sky, whom in all eternity will never mingle. . . Would I be able to bind two hearts together?”
― Bleach, Vol. 1
― Bleach, Vol. 1
“Watch out for intellect,
because it knows so much it knows nothing
and leaves you hanging upside down,
mouthing knowledge as your heart
falls out of your mouth.”
― The Complete Poems
because it knows so much it knows nothing
and leaves you hanging upside down,
mouthing knowledge as your heart
falls out of your mouth.”
― The Complete Poems
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