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Quotes About Escape

It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.
~ Sylvia Plath
I wish you'd find the exit out of my head.
~ Sylvia Plath
Let me fly with you.
~ Sylvia Plath
I felt sorry when I came to the last page. I wanted to crawl in between those black lines of print the way you crawl through a fence.
~ Sylvia Plath
My mind slipped from the noose of the thought and swung like a bird, in the center of empty air.
~ Sylvia Plath
Well, one wearies of the Public Gardens: one wants a vacation Where trees and clouds and animals pay no notice; Away from the labeled elms, the tame tea-roses
~ Sylvia Plath
wanted to crawl in between those black lines of print the way you crawl through a fence, and go to sleep under that beautiful big green fig tree. It
~ Sylvia Plath
Kafamda ak?l nam?na ne kalm??sa onu kullanarak bedenimi tuzaÄŸa düÅŸürmem gerekiyordu, yoksa beni elli y?l boyunca o ahmak kafesinde hiçbir anlam? olmayan bir yaÅŸama mahkûm edecekti.
~ Sylvia Plath
What I decided to do in the end was lie in bed as long as I wanted to and then go to Central Park and spend the day lying in the grass, the longest grass I could find in that bald, duck-ponded wilderness.
~ Sylvia Plath
What I decided to do in the end was to lie in bed as long as I wanted to and then go to Central park and spend the day long in the grass, the longest grass I could find in that bald, duck-ponded wilderness.
~ Sylvia Plath
How did I know that someday—at college, in Europe, somewhere, anywhere—the bell jar, with its stifling distortions, wouldn't descend again?
~ Sylvia Plath
I wanted to crawl in between those black lines of print the way you crawl through a fence, and go to sleep under that beautiful big green fig-tree.
~ Sylvia Plath
Another day of hell. He is on the prowl, all the fiends are come to torment me: and I alone am escaped to tell thee.
~ Sylvia Plath
Why am I obsessed with the idea I can justify myself by getting manuscripts published? Is it an escape-an excuse for any social failure-so I can say No, I don't go out for many extracurricular activities, but I spend a lot of time writing. Or is it an excuse for wanting to be alone and meditate alone, not having to brave a group of women? (Women in numbers has always disturbed me.)
~ Sylvia Plath
Thinking of the key, each confirms a prison.
~ T. S. Eliot
Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.
~ T. S. Eliot
HARRY: But I thought I might escape from one life to another, And it may be all one life, with no escape.
~ T. S. Eliot
Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality.
~ T. S. Eliot
Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these.
~ T.S. Eliot
I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.
~ T.S. Eliot
Why should men love the Church? Why should they love her laws? She tells them of Life and Death, and of all that they would forget. She is tender where they would be hard, and hard where they like to be soft. She tells them of Evil and Sin, and other unpleasant facts. They constantly try to escape From the darkness outside and within By dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good. But the man that is will shadow The man that pretends to be.
~ T.S. Eliot
They constantly try to escape From the darkness outside and within By dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good. But the man that is will shadow The man that pretends to be.
~ T.S. Eliot
Oh my soul, be prepared for the coming of the Stranger. Be prepared for him who knows how to ask questions. There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not. You shall not deny the Stranger. They constantly try to escape From the darkness outside and within By dreaming of systems so perfect that no one will need to be good. But the man that is shall shadow The man that pretends to be.
~ T.S. Eliot
But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things.
~ T.S. Eliot