## Metadata - Author: [[Sylvia Plath]] - Full Title: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath - Category: #books ## Highlights - Lord, what will I be? Where will the careless conglomeration of environment, heredity and stimulus lead me? ([Location 519](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0012DZ34W&location=519)) - … I don’t believe in God as a kind father in the sky. I don’t believe that the meek will inherit the earth: The meek get ignored and trampled. They decompose in the bloody soil of war, of business, of art, and they rot into the warm ground under the spring rains. It is the bold, the loud-mouthed, the cruel, the vital, the revolutionaries, the mighty in arms and will, who march over the soft patient flesh that lies beneath their cleated boots. ([Location 942](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0012DZ34W&location=942)) - I could love a Russian boy – and live with him. 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. ([Location 988](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0012DZ34W&location=988)) - I remember that as I was writing a poem on “Snow” when I was eight. I said aloud, “I wish I could have the ability to write down the feelings I have now while I’m still little, because when I grow up I will know how to write, but I will have forgotten what being little feels like.” And so it is that childlike sensitivity to new experiences and sensations seems to diminish in an inverse proportion to the growth of technical ability. As we become polished, so do we become hardened and guilty of accepting eating, sleeping, seeing, and hearing too easily and lazily, without question. We become blunt and callous and blissfully passive as each day adds another drop to the stagnant well of our years. ([Location 1234](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0012DZ34W&location=1234)) - Aloneness and selfness are too important to betray for company. ([Location 1499](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0012DZ34W&location=1499))