This tattoo was submitted by Allison, who says:
The tattoo is a drawing of a pair of shoes by Sylvia Plath. It is part of a small collection of her drawings that appears in the back of some paperback editions of “The Bell Jar”.
I’ve had the same copy of the book since high school and always keep it near me.
Drawing from The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
“I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart: I am, I am, I am.”
- The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
“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
“I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart: I am, I am, I am.”
- The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
“Consummatum est: this bill is ended,
And Faustus hath bequeathed his soul to Lucifer.
But what is this inscription on mine arm?
Homo fuge! Whither should I fly?
If unto God, he’ll throw me down to hell.
My senses are deceived; here’s nothing writ:
I see it plain, here in this place is writ,
Homo fuge! Yet shall not Faustus fly.”
- Faustus in The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus
