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11th February 2013

Quote reblogged from Poe's Mistress with 1,116 notes

I, to you, am lost in the gorgeous errors of flesh.

Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals

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5th February 2013

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I am terrified by this dark thing
That sleeps in me;
All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity.
— Sylvia Plath, Elm

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26th January 2013

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The blood jet is poetry,
There is no stopping it.
— Sylvia Plath, Kindness

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23rd January 2013

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The moon, also, is merciless: she would drag me
Cruelly, being barren.
Her radiance scathes me. Or perhaps I have caught her.
— Sylvia Plath, Elm

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31st October 2012

Quote reblogged from LEDA with 4,952 notes

It was sometime in October; she had long ago lost track of all the days and it really didn’t matter because one was like another and there were no nights to separate them because she never slept anymore.

Sylvia Plath, Tongues of Stone

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31st July 2012

Quote reblogged from A la recherche du temps perdu with 1,597 notes

The moon has nothing to be sad about,
Staring from her hood of bone.

She is used to this sort of thing.
Her blacks crackle and drag.

Sylvia Plath, from “Edge

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23rd May 2012

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Is there no way out of the mind?
— Sylvia Plath, Apprehensions

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31st March 2012

Quote reblogged from 100% pure spleen with 165 notes

I inhabit the wax image of myself, a doll’s body.
Sickness begins here: I am the dartboard for witches.
Only the devil can eat the devil out.
In the month of red leaves I climb to a bed of fire.

Sylvia Plath, Witch Burning

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