Jun 14

Sylvia Plath

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Tattoo from Sylvia Plath\'s journals.

“I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.”

- Sylvia Plath, The Journals of Sylvia Plath

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[...] started thinking about tattoos again last night when I ran across this picture. Someone tattooed this Sylvia Plath quote on his/her (not sure) [...]

--- - 07 Jul 08 at 23:00:37

that is the most beautiful tattoo/quote/placement/font/every thing i’ve ever seen. i’m searching for a perfect plath quote, i came across this, and i am in awe.

Zinegeek » literary tattoos - 23 Jul 08 at 09:01:14

[...] are (Tolkien) Elvish tattoos, the Little Prince, e. e. cummings and Kurt Vonnegut. I like some Sylvia Plath quotes and I kind of like the Death Eater tattoo (from the Harry Potter [...]

sd - 16 Aug 08 at 16:36:59

please tell me thats pen, and not permanently inked onto your body in that illegible horrific chicken scratch?

laura - 22 Nov 08 at 20:33:06

There’s something about quoting from a journal in that way that seems inherently wrong.

el - 23 Jun 09 at 01:59:41

This looks like someone grabbed a sharpie and scrawled the quote onto your arm. Ugh

Jen - 23 Jun 09 at 10:49:14

Actually, I didn’t know this when I put it up, but now I’m fairly certain that it IS Sharpie. Oh well.