
Stanza 44.
Nosce Teipsum (1599)
Stanza 44.
Nosce Teipsum (1599)
Source: Little Altars Everywhere
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“It's strange because sometimes, I read a book, and I think I am the people in the book.”
Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower
On how she would describe herself (as quoted in the book Chicana Ways: Conversations with Ten Chicana Writers https://books.google.com/books?id=yq0PkmCGWoEC&pg=PA205&lpg=PA205&dq)
“I am Envy… I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned.”
(19 January 2005)
Unfit for Mass Consumption (blog entries), 2005
Context: All I have to do is make you see this. This one particular thing here. That's all. And sometimes it's impossible. Sometimes, I know the best odds I can hope for are a thousand to one. You'll see what you see, what your life has conditioned you to see upon encountering that combination of words, not what I want or need you to see. Fiction writing is like making films for the blind.
Preserving Words and Worlds https://onbeing.org/programs/columba-stewart-and-getatchew-haile-preserving-words-and-worlds/ (19 January 2009)