Stars open among the lilies. Are you not blinded by such expressionless sirens? This is the silence of astounded souls.
Sylvia PlathIf they substituted the word 'Lust' for 'Love' in the popular songs it would come nearer the truth.
Sylvia PlathWhat do you have in mind after you graduate?" What I always thought I had in mind was getting some big scholarship to graduate school or a grant to study all over Europe, and then I thought I'd be a professor and write books of poems or write books of poems and be an editor of some sort. Usually I had these plans on the tip of my tongue. "I don't really know," I heard myself say. I felt a deep shock, hearing myself say that, because the minute I said it, I knew it was true.
Sylvia Plath