Sylvia Plath Quotes About Mask

Quotes about: Mask

• Look at that ugly dead mask here and do not forget it. It is a chalk mask with dead dry poison behind it, like the death angel. It is what I was this fall, and what I never want to be again. The pouting disconsolate mouth, the flat, bored, numb, expressionless eyes: symptoms of the foul decay within.

  Sylvia Plath

  Depression, Fall, Eye

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.155, Anchor

• I felt the mask crumple, the great poisonous store of corrosive ashes begin to spew out of my mouth.

  Sylvia Plath

  Ashes, Mouths, Mask

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.152, Anchor

• God, it was good to let go, let the tight mask fall off, and the bewildered, chaotic fragments pour out. It was the purge, the catharsis.

  Sylvia Plath

  Letting Go, Fall, Catharsis

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.152, Anchor

• Masks are the order of the day - and the least I can do is cultivate the illusion that I am gay, serene, not hollow and afraid.

  Sylvia Plath

  Gay, Order, Illusion

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.151, Anchor

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