I feel self-repressed again. The old fall disease. Where is my willpow…

Sylvia Plath
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I feel self-repressed again. The old fall disease. Where is my willpower? The idea of a life gets in the way of my life...I dream too much, work too little.
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Tomorrow I will curse the dawn, but there will be other, earlier nights, and the dawns will be no longer hell laid out in alarms and raw bells and sirens. ✨ Sylvia Plath (2013). The Journals of Sylvi … ▶
Stars open among the lilies. Are you not blinded by such expressionless sirens? This is the silence of astounded souls. ✨ Sylvia Plath (2015). Collected Poems, p.160, Faber & Faber
And I identify too closely with my reading, with my writing. ✨ Sylvia Plath (2007). The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, p.199, Anchor
Sometimes I feel like I'm not solid. I'm hollow. There's nothing behind my eyes. I'm a negative of a person. All I want is blackness, blackness and silence.
Oh what a poet I will flay myself into. ✨ Sylvia Plath (2000). The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, 1950-1962, Anchor

I feel self-repressed again. The old fall disease. Where is my willpower? The idea of a life gets in the way of my life...I dream too much, work too little.

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