Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Franz Kafka, The Diaries of Franz Kafka
Anne Sexton, Imitations of Drowning
Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
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Saturday, December 2nd.
Sylvia Plath.
It's a dark and cold day in December and so, naturally, we are left with no choice but to celebrate the sublime and singular talent of Sylvia Plath. That means two entire days of quotes, pictures, and exceptional memes of a literary, existential flavor.
Happy reading, folks. Use your weekends well.
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everyday girls are haunted by sylvia plath's fig tree analogy
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The frost makes a flower,
The dew makes a star,
Sylvia Plath, from “Death & Co.”, 14 November 1962, in: Ariel, 1965
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"There is a certain clinical satisfaction in seeing just how bad things can get."
Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
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It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me.
Sylvia Plath
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– Sylvia Plath, Mad Girl’s Love Song
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I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.
— Sylvia Plath
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It is bittersweet to be reading the journals of Sylvia Plath, for numerous reasons, one stating the obvious how her journals are published without her consent and the brutally heartbreaking abrupt ending to her life.
Reading through her journal entries, I feel an awakening in my soul. I feel less alone. I feel seen by a woman who is no more nor I never met.. which makes me wonder how many of us out there are there? Both who have passed and are still present.
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Sylvia plath was such an intense writer yet knew how to frame words in the fashion of her being. I have read so many women writers yet nobody manages to even come close to her. She had this flair for making you feel things in some other universal way. Her smile will have you doubt the life she had. We all have our melancholic saddening episodes to the extent of giving up but she seemed to have an sexual affair with death. It always left her wanting more. She romanced death to the extent that is consumed her. People judge me when i say i am obsessed with her but can you not see how insanely beautiful and unique her mind was? I envy those who got to exist around her. Breaks my heart that she isn’t alive to see what her words do to people who adore her. Her writing smells of art the same way the paint smells when a painting is completed.
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Exhibit: "The Bell Jars: Lyman Conservatory and Sylvia Plath’s Botanical Imagination"
September 15, 2023 through June 28, 2024 at Smith College Botanical Gardens, Northampton, MA
"The Bell Jars: Lyman Conservatory and Sylvia Plath’s Botanical Imagination tells this story, shedding new light on Plath’s life and work while also examining the power of interspecies encounters between people and plants. Using archival materials and Plath’s literary work as a guide, this exhibit invites visitors to inhabit Lyman as Plath once did. Cross-pollinating the humanities and natural sciences, we hope to examine Plath’s botanical imagination and Lyman’s role in cultivating it."
For more information on the exhibit, see The Botanic Garden website at: https://garden.smith.edu/explore/exhibits/temporary-exhibits/bell-jars-lyman-conservatory-and
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Description & photo: https://garden.smith.edu/
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