Nothing has prepared sharks, squid, krill and other sea creatures for industrial-scale extraction that destroys entire ecosystems while targeting a few species.


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I never wanted to get married. The last thing I wanted was infinite security and to be the place an ...
SYLVIA PLATH
What I want back is what I was Before the bed, before the knife, Before the brooch-pin and the salve...
SYLVIA PLATH
I do not want a plain box, I want a sarcophagus With tigery stripes, and a face on it Round as the m...
SYLVIA PLATH
For me, poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose.
SYLVIA PLATH
I lean to you, numb as a fossil. Tell me I'm here.
SYLVIA PLATH
Apparently, the most difficult feat for a Cambridge male is to accept a woman not merely as feeling,...
SYLVIA PLATH
Invest in yourself, in your education. There's nothing better.
SYLVIA PORTER
I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middl...
SYLVIA PLATH
I have never found anybody who could stand to accept the daily demonstrative love I feel in me, and ...
SYLVIA PLATH
I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I...
SYLVIA PLATH
I told him I believed in hell, and that certain people, like me, had to live in hell before they die...
SYLVIA PLATH
How we need another soul to cling to.
SYLVIA PLATH
I talk to God but the sky is empty.
SYLVIA PLATH
I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
SYLVIA PLATH
I wonder why I don't go to bed and go to sleep. But then it would be tomorrow, so I decide that no m...
SYLVIA PLATH
Yes, I was infatuated with you: I am still. No one has ever heightened such a keen capacity of physi...
SYLVIA PLATH
God, but life is loneliness, despite all the opiates, despite the shrill tinsel gaiety of "parties" ...
SYLVIA PLATH
And the danger is that in this move toward new horizons and far directions, that I may lose what I h...
SYLVIA PLATH
Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out o...
SYLVIA PLATH
Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting...
SYLVIA PLATH
I woke to the sound of rain.
SYLVIA PLATH
Is there no way out of the mind?
SYLVIA PLATH
The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it.
SYLVIA PLATH
How frail the human heart must be --a mirrored pool of thought...
SYLVIA PLATH
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.
SYLVIA PLATH
Widow. The word consumes itself.
SYLVIA PLATH
If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as ...
SYLVIA PLATH
The man creates a pseudonym and hides behind it like a worm
SYLVIA PLATH
The average family exists only on paper and its average budget is a fiction, invented by statistici...
SYLVIA PORTER
I am a citizen of the world.
SYLVIA BEACH
Kiss me and you will see how important I am.
SYLVIA PLATH
If I tried to describe my personality, I'd start to gush about living by the ocean half my life ...
SYLVIA PLATH
Every woman adores a Fascist.
SYLVIA PLATH
I pass by people, grazing them on the edges, and it bothers me. I've got to admire someone to re...
SYLVIA PLATH