My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.
Sylvia PlathPoetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline. You've got to go so far, so fast, in such a small space, that you've got to burn away all the peripherals.
Sylvia PlathIf you pluck out my heart To find what makes it move, You’ll halt the clock That syncopates our love.
Sylvia Plath