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Sylvia Plath: Citations en anglais

“I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. One fig was a husband and happy home and children, and another fig was a famous poet and another fig was a brilliant professor, and another fig was Ee Gee, the amazing editor, and another fig was Constantin and Socrates and Attila and a pack of other lovers with queer names and offbeat professions, and another fig was an Olympic lady crew champion, and beyond and above these figs were many more figs I couldn't quite make out.”

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Sylvia Plath livre The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar (1963), Ch.7

“There ought, I thought, to be a ritual for being born twice - patched, retreaded and approved for the road.”

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Sylvia Plath livre The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar (1963), Ch. 20

“The moon is no door. It is a face in its own right,
White as a knuckle and terribly upset.
It drags the sea after it like a dark crime; it is quiet
With the O-gape of complete despair. I live here.”

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Sylvia Plath Ariel

"The Moon and the Yew Tree"
Ariel (1965)

“There’s a stake in your fat black heart
And the villagers never liked you.
They are dancing and stamping on you.
They always knew it was you.
Daddy, daddy, you bastard, I’m through.”

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Sylvia Plath Ariel

"Daddy"
Ariel (1965)

“I didn't feel like asking him if there were any other ways to have babies. For some reason the most important thing to me was actually seeing the baby come out of you yourself and making sure it was yours. I thought if you had to have all that pain anyway you might just as well stay awake. I had always imagined myself hitching up on to my elbows on the delivery table after it was all over — dead white, of course, with no makeup and form the awful ordeal, but smiling and radiant, with my hair down to my waist, and reaching out for my first little squirmy child and saying its name, whatever it was.”

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Sylvia Plath livre The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar (1963), Ch. 6

“The abstract kills, the concrete saves.”

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1959-01-07 http://books.google.com/books?id=4V7HOuom_I4C&q=%22The+abstract+kills+the+concrete+saves%22&pg=PA287#v=onepage <br class="br">The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (2000)

“What a man is is an arrow into the future and what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from.”

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Sylvia Plath livre The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar (1963), Ch. 5

“The one thing I was good at was winning scholarships and prizes, and that era was coming to an end.”

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Sylvia Plath livre The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar (1963), Ch. 7

“They understood things of the spirit in Japan. They disemboweled themselves when anything went wrong.”

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Sylvia Plath livre The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar (1963), Ch. 11

“Now your head, excuse me, is empty.
I have the ticket for that.
Come here, sweetie, out of the closet.
Well, what do you think of that?
Naked as paper to start

But in twenty-five years she'll be silver,
In fifty, gold.
A living doll, everywhere you look.
It can sew, it can cook,
It can talk, talk, talk.

It works, there is nothing wrong with it.
You have a hole, it's a poultice.
You have an eye, it's an image.
My boy, it's your last resort.
Will you marry it, marry it, marry it.”

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Sylvia Plath Ariel

"The Applicant" http://www.angelfire.com/tn/plath/applicant.html <br class="br">Ariel (1965)

“I'm a riddle in nine syllables,
An elephant, a ponderous house,
A melon strolling on two tendrils.
O red fruit, ivory, fine timbers!
This loaf's big with its yeasty rising.
Money's new-minted in this fat purse.
I'm a means, a stage, a cow in calf.
I've eaten a bag of green apples,
Boarded the train there's no getting off.”

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Sylvia Plath livre Crossing the Water

"Metaphors" http://www.angelfire.com/tn/plath/metaphor.html <br class="br">Crossing the Water (1971)

“What did my fingers do before they held him?
What did my heart do, with its love?”

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"Three Women: A Poem for Three Voices" http://www.angelfire.com/tn/plath/3women.html (1962), a radio play published in 1968

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