#Mad Girl's Love Song

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She struck me as having a very exceptional quality of mind – both imaginative and controlled, both lucid and intense.

Newton Arvin, quoted in ‘Mad Girl’s Love Song: Sylvia Plath and Life Before Ted’ 

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Mad Girl's Love Song, Sylvia Plath

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I’m Carmen..

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I wish you’d kiss me quite insane.

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I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my lids and all is born again. (I think I made you up inside my head.)

"Mad Girl’s Love Song" by Sylvia Plath

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I dreamed that you bewitched me into bed

and sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane.

(I think I made you up inside my head.)

Sylvia Plath, from "Mad Girl's Love Song "

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Mad Girl's Love Song

By Sylvia Plath

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Mad Girl's Love Song

"I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my lids and all is born again. (I think I made you up inside my head.) The stars go waltzing out in blue and red, And arbitrary blackness gallops in: I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead. I dreamed that you bewitched me into bed And sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane. (I think I made you up inside my head.) God topples from the sky, hell's fires fade: Exit seraphim and Satan's men: I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead. I fancied you'd return the way you said, But I grow old and I forget your name. (I think I made you up inside my head.) I should have loved a thunderbird instead; At least when spring comes they roar back again. I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead. (I think I made you up inside my head.)"

- Sylvia Plath

[derangedrhythms]

I love you, I love all of you, and your thorns are the best part of you […]

Gordon Lameyer, in a letter to Sylvia Plath written late 1954. Quoted in ‘Mad Girl’s Love Song: Sylvia Plath and Life Before Ted’ by Andrew Wilson 

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my favourite part of the collage I made yesterday

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"I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; / I lift my lids and all is born again. / (I think I made you up inside my head.)"

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“I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.”

― Sylvia Plath, from Mad Girl's Love Song

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Mad Girl's Love Song

"I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my lids and all is born again. (I think I made you up inside my head.)

The stars go waltzing out in blue and red, And arbitrary blackness gallops in: I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.

I dreamed that you bewitched me into bed And sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane. (I think I made you up inside my head.)

God topples from the sky, hell's fires fade: Exit seraphim and Satan's men: I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead.

I fancied you'd return the way you said, But I grow old and I forget your name. (I think I made you up inside my head.)

I should have loved a thunderbird instead; At least when spring comes they roar back again. I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead. (I think I made you up inside my head.)"

— Sylvia Plath

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Sylvia Plath, from "Mad Girl's Love Song: A Villanelle " written c. 1954