Cassandra L. Thompson Favourite Quotes Collection

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The night sky is only a sort of carbon paper
Blueblack with the muchpoked periods of stars
Letting in the light peephole after peephole
A bonewhite light like death behind all things.
Sylvia PlathStars 122
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I am terrified by this dark thing
That sleeps in me
All day I feel its soft feathery turnings its malignity.
Sylvia PlathDepression 91
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Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call.
Sylvia PlathArt 106
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I desire the things which will destroy me in the end.
Sylvia PlathUncategorized 139
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I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.
Sylvia PlathMood 160
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And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
Sylvia PlathImagination 210
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Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
Edgar Allan Poebeauty 119
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The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
Edgar Allan PoeDeath 227
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I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
Edgar Allan PoeInspiration 118
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Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance.
Edgar Allan PoeMemory 126
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In beauty of face no maiden ever equaled her. It was the radiance of an opium-dream - an airy and spirit-lifting vision more wildly divine than the fantasies which hovered about the slumbering souls of the daughters of Delos.
Edgar Allan PoeBeauty 119
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Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
Edgar Allan PoeScience 165
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All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
Edgar Allan PoePoetry 166
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All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.
Edgar Allan PoeDream 177
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Men have called me mad but the question is not yet settled whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.
Edgar Allan PoeMadness 158
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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
Edgar Allan PoePower 214
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The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be.
Edgar Allan PoeGenius 177
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I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.
Edgar Allan PoeMelancholy 171
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Invisible things are the only realities.
Edgar Allan PoeSatire 237
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