#PoetryMatters #Villa
my #currentread for #2024reads is the abdridged ed of Sylvia Plath's journal, for me all of Plath's writing is like reading poetry
#PoetryMatters #Villa
my #currentread for #2024reads is the abdridged ed of Sylvia Plath's journal, for me all of Plath's writing is like reading poetry
"Anger jolts like heartburn in the throat"
This week's acquisitions. Where to start?!
“And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter— they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long.”
“I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.”
“Is there no escape from the mind?”
For the year 2000 I chose to read this book. There is something so terribly sad and voyeuristic about reading her journals knowing how it‘s going to end. The unraveling and struggle of her life is here for all to read and more importantly to understand how this amazing woman came to the end she came to and why her writing was so very powerful. #19822022 @Librarybelle
Fantastic free bookshelf pickup tonight!🥰 going to spruce it up over the holidays! My other one was packed! 📚🐈⬛
Also picked up my #CreepyChristmas package today!! @teebe @ulrichyumiodd 🩸🎄🖤
Eeeek!!! Birthday prezzies books from my besties!!🖤🖤
…I turn the big 3-0 tomorrow!😬😂
The 27th ! A couple of greats in the field of poetry.
Birthdays today. Plath (1932-1963) Thomas (1914-1953) Love them both.
Here I am, a bundle of past recollections and future dreams, knotted up in a reasonably attractive bundle of flesh. I remember what this flesh has gone through; I dream of what it may go through.
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#currentlyreading #journals #SylviaPlath #women #writers #life
Reading someone else's private journals can be a little weird. I just read an entire paragraph that she wrote about how much she enjoys picking her nose. I feel like maybe she didn't mean for the world to see that. But it makes her really human at the same time.
I know you all are glad I shared this.
“So, now I shall talk every night. To myself. To the moon. I shall walk, as I did tonight, #jealous of my loneliness, in the blue-silver of the cold moon, shining brilliantly on the drifts of fresh-fallen snow, with the myriad sparkles. I talk to myself and look at the dark trees, blessedly neutral. ⬇️
“I talk to God but the sky is empty.”
#Prayer
#QuotsyMar20
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“And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter— they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long.”
#QuotsyJan20 | 28: #Privacy
📷: Made with Typorama
Light, Christmas reading. Just my style.
Why should you read Sylvia Plath? Watch this TED-Ed video - https://youtu.be/wCWl8ZIgCHk
#YouSay many things in journals that no one else ever sees. Maybe someone could have helped her, I know depression wasn‘t acknowledged then like it is today. I hope you will listen to the song!! It‘s so inspirational and uplifting!
“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.”
I‘m including a crisis hotline link in case anyone out there needs it. ❤️
https://www.mentalhealthline.org/?n=8445494266
I'm gonna share some quotes from this book.
So here they are:
¶ ...All is spoiled by the fact that I am a girl, a female always in danger of assault and battery. God, I want to talk to everybody I can as deeply as I can. I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night… ¶
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#OneWordReview: Forelsket
Forelsket (Norwegian): The indescribable euphoria experienced as you begin to fall in love.
I have read sylvia's journals long ago. But, it always feels like i haven't read them at all. Every time i go thru them, i get THAT feeling. Hell, i love this girl. Truly. I know i can't have her. I can't meet her. She's dead and gone and just a name that survived til date. But, even then, this feeling that i've feels wonderful.
We're having a blizzard 🌨️today in the Denver area that's supposed to continue on into the night. 🤤
I enjoyed this sly take on the weather by a local used bookstore.
I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between
"I am but one more drop in the great sea of matter..."
-The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath - Sylvia Plath
-Love in the Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Marquez
-Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine - Gail Honeyman
-The Book Of Essie - Meghan Weir
- 11/22/63 - Stephen King
#sundayfunday
#QuotsyNov18 #Author @TK-421
One of the few books I‘ve read more than once. I read it in german when I was about 15 or sixteen (thanks to Rory from Gilmore Girls) and was mesmerised. I read it in english only a little later and my final graduation presentation in english was about Plath. I still adore her writing and think her books are absolutely #thought-provoking . Until this day she remains one of my favourite authors❤️
#31bookpics @howjessreads
• "Geography Lesson" by Sylvia Plath •
#wow #somuchgood #beautiful #poetry #poets #ladypoets #ladywriters #tragicmuse #LadyLazarus #madgirl