#The Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume I: 1940–1956

[dactylicreveries]

-Sylvia Plath, The Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume I: 1940–1956

[derangedrhythms]

[...] I’m so pathetically intense. I just can’t be any other way.

Sylvia Plath, The Letters of Sylvia Plath: Volume I: 1940 - 1956 — Edward Cohen, c. 11th September 1950

[petaltexturedskies]

Sylvia Plath, from a letter to Aurelia Plath written c. February 1953 featured in The Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume I: 1940–1956

[flowerytale]

Sylvia Plath, from a letter to Ann Davidow-Goodman, featured in The Letters Of Sylvia Plath Volume I: 1940–1956

[Text ID: I know I'll always think of you with something like hurt and nostalgia―and a great deal of love.]

[vulpinae]

The Letters of Sylvia Plath - Volume I: 1940–1956

[llovelymoonn]

on september

sylvia plath in a letter to aurelia plath (c. aug 1951) \\ lucie brock-broido stay, illusion: "a girl ago" \\ syliva plath the letters of sylvia plath volume I: 1940–1956 (via @flowerytale) \\ rowland e. robinson \\ reina maría rodríguez memory of water (tr. joel brouwer & jessica stephenson)

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[lelif]

a bittersweet ending

audrey emmett// caitlyn siehl// quote: these unforgettable things, s. l. gray ,edit: ?// carissa potter carlson// closure, taylor swift// sue zhao// nineteen minutes, jodi picoult// closure, taylor swift// the letters of sylvia plath volume I: 1940–1956// ?// extremely loud and incredibly close, jonathan safran foer// ?// ?// cough it out, the front bottoms

[asoftepiloguemylove]

i wanna make you fall in love as hard as my poor parents teenage daughter / she'll be the best you ever had if you let her

Sylvia Plath from a letter to Ann Davdiow-Goodman written 1951; Letters of Sylvia Plath, Volume I: 1940-1956 / Jeanette Winterson excerpt from Lighthousekeeping / Rosamund Hodge excerpt from Cruel Beauty / unknown / image: Angelica Alzona Intimacy (2012) words: The National Daughter of the Soho Riots (2005) / Tathève Simonyan A Prayer / @/FAUNTHEKiD (pinterest) / Victoria Chang Foghorn; Six poems / image: unknown words: Richard Siken excerpt from Crush / Hala Alyan I'm Not Speaking First

i. Sylvia Plath, letter to Ann Davdiow-Goodman

[ "I know I'll always think of you with something like hurt and nostalgia - and a great deal of love." ]

ii. Jeanette Winterson, Lighthousekeeping

[ "This is not a love story, but love is in it. That is, love is just outside it, looking for a way to break in." ]

iii. Rosamund Hodge, Cruel Beauty

[ "You fought and fought to keep all the cruelty locked up in your head, and for what? None of them ever loved you, because none of them ever knew you." ]

iv. unknown

[ "and you've cried once more because recognition feels like forgiveness, which is a burning furnace that can't stand on its own. love is a feast but you've learned to abstain. there is a sickness that follows the shame of giving with love only to be met with slaughter." ]

v. Angelica Alzona, Intimacy / The National, Daughter of the Soho Riots

[ Surrealist painting of a man and a woman kissing as their faces blend together. Red outlines of hands reach up around them. "BREAK MY ARMS / AROUND THE ONE I LOVE" ]

vi. Tatheve Simonyan, A Prayer

[ "Rage, that is love - rotten! / Rage, that is desire - rotten! / Rage! - like a prayer, unanswered, ricocheting from your ceiling and landing right onto your eyes, never quite reaching where it was meant to." ]

vii. FAUNTHEKiD

[ "being in close proximity to you / is being led to the slaughter / if that the lamb is aware is alive is accepting / if that the slaughter is love love love" ]

viii. Victoria Chang, Foghorn

[ "The great mystery / is whether I love you or / I just love mourning. / The absence of a laugh just / gone, and the air that fills it." ]

ix. unknown/Richard Siken, Crush

[ Silhouette of a boy looking downwards. Red streaks from the background spread outwards from the middle. "I'll be your / slaughterhouse, / your killing floor, / your morgue / and final resting" ]

x. Hala Alyan, I'm Not Speaking First

[ "Nothing's Freudian anymore. A cigar's a cigar. I want to love something / I want to love something without having to apologize for it. Please don't tell." ]

[oldwinesoul]

“I love you and perish to be with you and lying in bed with you and kissing you all over and go just wild with thinking & wishing & remembering […]”

// Sylvia Plath, The Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume I: 1940-1956; from a letter to Ted Hughes, 19th October 1956

[yaya-tchoum]

I get these electric shocks of knowing how I miss you

~•Sylvia Plath•~

#The Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume I: 1940–1956 — Ted Hughes, 21st October 1956 #gif source theperfectwonderland

[letsbeapoemtogether]

[...] in March I'll be rested, caught up and human.

The Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume I: 1940–1956, from a letter to her mother, Aurelia Schober Plath, written Monday, 2 February 1953

[fawnaura]

I know I’ll always think of you with something like hurt and nostalgia—and a great deal of love.

Sylvia Plath, The Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume I: 1940–1956

[derangedrhythms]

If I lived by the sea I would never be really sad. I get an immense sense of eternity and peace from the ocean. I can lose myself in staring at it hour after hour.

Sylvia Plath, The Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume I: 1940–1956 ⁠—  Aurelia Schober Plath, 18th July 1951

[petaltexturedskies]

I know I'll always think of you with something like hurt and nostalgia—and a great deal of love.

Sylvia Plath, from a letter to Ann Davidow-Goodman; featured in “The Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume I: 1940-1956”

[flowerytale]

Sylvia Plath, The Letters of Sylvia Plath Volume I: 1940–1956

[enveredei]

"[...] sou tão pateticamente intensa. Eu simplesmente não posso ser de outra forma".

- Sylvia Plath, The Letters of Sylvia Plath: Volume I: 1940 - 1956 — Edward Cohen, c. 11 de Setembro de 1950.