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Sylvia Plath was born on October 27, 1932, in Boston, Massachusetts. She was a poet, novelist, and short story writer. She is best known for her two published collections of poetry, The Colossus and Other Poems (1960) and Ariel (1965), as well as The Bell Jar, a semi-autobiographical novel published shortly before her suicide in 1963.

Plath was born into a middle-class family and attended Smith College, where she was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. After graduating from Smith, she received a Fulbright scholarship to study at Newnham College, Cambridge. In 1956, she married fellow poet Ted Hughes. They had two children together, Frieda and Nicholas, before divorcing in 1962.

Plath struggled with depression throughout her life and was treated with electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). She died by suicide on February 11, 1963, at the age of 30.

Plath's work has been praised for its raw emotion and honesty. She is considered one of the most important poets of the 20th century.

I wanted to crawl in between those black lines of print, the way you crawl through a fence, and go to sleep under that beautiful big green fig-tree.

Sylvia Plath

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

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How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this, I need someone to pour myself into.

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I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.

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I may never be happy, but tonight I am content.

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There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.

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Living with him is like being told a perpetual story: his mind is the biggest, most imaginative I have ever met. I could live in its growing countries forever.

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So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.

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let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences

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I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, This is what it is to be happy.

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Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I’ve taken for granted.

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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.

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Oh, something is there, waiting for me. Perhaps someday the revelation will burst in upon me and I will see the other side of this monumental grotesque joke. And then I'll laugh. And then I'll know what life is.

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I have never found anybody who could stand to accept the daily demonstrative love I feel in me, and give back as good as I give.

Sylvia Plath

I wonder why I don't go to bed and go to sleep. But then it would be tomorrow, so I decide that no matter how tired, no matter how incoherent I am, I can skip on hour more of sleep and live.

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