Tag Archives: poetic

I wake to listen: A far sea moves in my ear. Sylvia Plath, from “Morning Song” (in Ariel)

I liked looking at other people in crucial situations I certainly learned a lot of things I never would have learned otherwise this way, and even when they surprised me or made me sick I never let on, but pretended that’s the way I knew things all the time. The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath (via quoteshelf)

What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age. Sylvia Plath (via frozenrevolution)

Always be careful of what you hear about a woman. Rumours either come from a man that can’t have her or a woman who can’t compete with her. (via awelltraveledwoman)

I never feel so much myself as when I’m in a hot bath. I lay in that tub on the seventeenth floor of this hotel, high up over the jazz and push of New York, for near on to an hour, and felt myself growing pure again. The Bell Jar, Sylvia Plath (via quoteshelf)

What I want back is what I was. Sylvia Plath

Love is an illusion, but I would willingly fall for it if I could believe in it. Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Sometimes a start is all we ever get. Junot Diaz, The Cheater’s Guide to Love (via quoteshelf)

When it came to love, she enjoyed the thrill of the chase but seldom stopped to check whether happiness was keeping up. Michael Faudet