Sylvia Plath Quotes
Mountains terrify me - they just sit about; they are so proud.
Plath, Sylvia. The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath. Edited by Karen V. Kukil, Anchor Books, 2000.
The Flemmish city of Ghent needed a Governor. Du Bois approached Philip Van Artevelde whose father had been a successful governor to see if he would be interested in assuming the office. Many cities, while not democracies, did elect their ruler as for a time was done on Ancient Rome. This quotation is interesting in that Du Bois, a kingmaker politician, shows us what qualifications were perceived necessary for a Governor of a major city.
Hastings founded a colony in Brazil for Confederates who were unwilling to live in the South during Reconstruction. He was trying to raise recruits. His book was effusive in its description of Brazil—without mentioning the yellow fever, poisonous animals, sweltering jungles and some of the less desirable elements of Brazil.
The “customs” were ceremonies where criminals were executed along with enemy raiders who were captured.
Sylvia Plath was an American poet, novelist, and short-story writer. She is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and is best known for two of her published collections, The Colossus and Other Poems (1960) and Ariel (1965), as well as The Bell Jar, a semi-autobiographical novel published shortly before her death in 1963. The Collected Poems were published in 1981, which included many previously unpublished works. For this collection Plath was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in Poetry in 1982, making her the fourth to receive this honour posthumously.
