🔬 Freedom
I didn’t want any flowers, I only wantedTo lie with my hands turned up and be utterly empty.How free it is, you have no idea how free——The peacefulness is so big it dazes you,And it asks nothing, a name tag, a few trinkets.It is what the dead close on, finally; I imagine them Shutting their mouths on it, like a Communion tablet.
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🔬 Family

My mother smiled. 'I knew my baby wasn't like that.'I looked at her. 'Like what?'Like those awful people. Those awful dead people at that hospital.' She paused. 'I knew you'd decide to be all right again.
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🔬 Money

Amazing how money would simplify problems like ours. We wouldn't go wild at all, but write & travel & study all of our lives - which I hope we do anyway. And have a house apart, by the side of no road, with country about & a study & walls of bookcases.
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Sylvia Plath
🔬 Wisdom

For me poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose.
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Sylvia Plath
🔬 Courage

I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
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Sylvia Plath
🔬 Nature

I woke to the sound of rain.
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Sylvia Plath
🔬 Life

They had to call and callAnd pick the worms off me like sticky pearls.--From the poem 'Lady Lazarus', written 23-29 October 1962.
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Sylvia Plath