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God, if ever I have come close to wanting to commit suicide, it is now, with the groggy sleepless blood dragging through my veins, and the air thick and gray with rain ... I fell into bed again this morning, begging for

God, if ever I have come close to wanting to commit suicide, it is now, with the groggy sleepless blood dragging through my veins, and the air thick and gray with rain ... I fell into bed again this morning, begging for sleep, withdrawing into the dark, warm, fetid escape from action, from responsibility. No good.

Sylvia Plath

Suicide, Morning, Rain

Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.149, Anchor

I think I am worthwhile just because I have optical nerves and can try to put down what they perceive. What a fool!

Sylvia Plath

Thinking, Trying, Nerves

Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.20, Anchor

If only a group of people were more important to me than the idea of a Novel, I might begin a novel.

Sylvia Plath

Ideas, People, Important

England offers new comforts. I could write a novel there.

Sylvia Plath

Writing, Comfort, England

Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.325, Anchor

What a man wants is a mate and what a woman wants is infinite security,’ and, ‘What a man is is an arrow into the future and a what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from.

Sylvia Plath

Men, Arrows, Want

Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.38, Hamilton Books

The woman is perfected. Her dead Body wears the smile of accomplishment.

Sylvia Plath

Suicide, Self Harm, Accomplishment

"Edge" l. 1 (1965)

I think that in poetry personal experience is very important, but certainly it shouldn't be a kind of shut-box and mirror looking, narcissistic experience. I believe it should be relevant, and relevant to the larger things, the bigger things such as Hiroshima and Dachau and so on.

Sylvia Plath

Believe, Thinking, Mirrors

Source: www.english.illinois.edu

My best friends when I was young were always doctors. I used to dress up in a white gauze helmet and go round and see babies born and cadavers cut open. This fascinated me, but I could never bring myself to disciplining myself to the point where I could learn all the details that one has to learn to be a good doctor. This is the sort of opposition: somebody who deals directly with human experiences, is able to cure, to mend, to help, this sort of thing.

Sylvia Plath

Baby, Cutting, Doctors

Source: www.english.illinois.edu