...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
I laid my face to the smooth face of the marble and howled my loss into the cold salt rain.
Interpretation
The quote expresses deep sorrow and a longing for connection, using vivid imagery to convey the intensity of grief.
In this poignant quote by Sylvia Plath, the act of laying one's face against the smooth marble symbolizes a desire for solace in the face of profound loss. The howl into the cold salt rain encapsulates the rawness of grief, suggesting that the speaker seeks to externalize their pain while also connecting with the natural world, which can both reflect and amplify their emotional turmoil.
In practice
This quote could be used in a eulogy to express the depth of loss felt for a loved one.
...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.
In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love.
As someone who lived under communism for most of my life I feel obliged to say that the biggest threat to freedom, democracy, the market economy and prosperity at the beginning of the 21st century is not communism or its various softer variants. Communism was replaced by the threat of ambitious environmentalism.
Curiosity creeps into the houses of the unfortunate and the needy under the name of duty or of pity.
Vertical and horizontal lines are the expression of two opposing forces; they exist everywhere and dominate everything; their reciprocal action constitutes 'life'. I recognized that the equilibrium of any particular aspect of nature rests on the equivalence of its opposites.
Liberty will not descend to a people; a people must raise themselves to liberty; it is a blessing that must be earned before it can be enjoyed.
We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.
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