...we shall board our imagined ship and wildly sail among sacred islands of the mad till death shatters the fabulous stars and makes us real.
Sylvia PlathRead
We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.
Interpretation
The quote expresses a desire for a deeper connection that transcends the current reality.
Sylvia Plath's quote captures the longing for a profound relationship that exists beyond the limitations of life as we know it. It suggests that the connection shared between two people is so strong that it deserves to be revisited in another existence, highlighting themes of love, destiny, and the ethereal nature of human connections.
In practice
This quote could be used in a romantic speech at a wedding.
...we shall board our imagined ship and wildly sail among sacred islands of the mad till death shatters the fabulous stars and makes us real.
The hardest thing, I think, is to live richly in the present, without letting it be tainted & spoiled out of fear for the future or regret for a badly-managed past.
It is as if my life were magically run by two electric currents: joyous positive and despairing negative--which ever is running at the moment dominates my life, floods it.
You walked in, laughing, tears welling confused, mingling in your throat. How can you be so many women to so many people, oh you strange girl?
I keep wanting to crawl back into the womb.
It's the living, the eating, the sleeping that everyone needs. Ideas don't matter so much after all. My three best friends are Catholic. I can't see their beliefs, but I can see the things they love to do on earth. When you come right down to it, I do believe in the freedom of the individual.
A woman waits for me, she contains all, nothing is lacking, Yet all were lacking if sex were lacking, or if the moisture of the right man were lacking.
The love within us is meant to extend outward. The closer we grow to our inner light, we feel a natural urge to share it. We all long for meaningful work, some creative endeavor that will be our ministry, by which the energies within us might flow out to help heal the world.
Our opinions are what we'll be known for; our love is what we'll be remembered for
I never look at the masses as my responsibility. I look at the individual. I can love only one person at a time. I can feed only one person at a time. Just one, one, one.
Love is the only thing that increases twofold every time it is shared.
You believe that a lover will bring you love, but it is your love that will bring you a lover.
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