American - Poet | October 27, 1932 - February 11, 1963
Kiss me and you will see how important I am.
Sylvia Plath
RomanticI AmKissMeYouImportant
There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.
BathKnowHotThingsMustCure
If you expect nothing from anybody, you're never disappointed.
YouNothingNeverExpectAnybody
I am a victim of introspection.
I AmVictimIntrospectionAm
In London the day after Christmas (Boxing Day), it began to snow: my first snow in England. For five years, I had been tactfully asking, 'Do you ever have snow at all?' as I steeled myself to the six months of wet, tepid gray that make up an English winter. 'Ooo, I do remember snow,' was the usual reply, 'when I were a lad.'
WinterSnowMyselfDayRememberYou
The sea was our main entertainment. When company came, we set them before it on rugs, with thermoses and sandwiches and colored umbrellas, as if the water - blue, green, gray, navy or silver as it might be - were enough to watch.
SeaWaterBlueGreenEnoughSilver
What a man is is an arrow into the future, and what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from.
FutureWomanManPlaceArrowOff
Indecision and reveries are the anesthetics of constructive action.
ActionIndecisionConstructive
For a time, I believed not in God nor Santa Claus, but in mermaids. They seemed as logical and possible to me as the brittle twig of a seahorse in the zoo aquarium or the skates lugged up on the lines of cursing Sunday fishermen - skates the shape of old pillowslips with the full, coy lips of women.
WomenGodTimeMeLipsSunday
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.
EyesWorldBornLiftDeadDrops
I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.
HeartPeaceI AmDeepOldBreath
Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.
FindNothingEverythingWanting
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