I do not want a plain box, I want a sarcophagus With tigery stripes, and a face on it Round as the moon, to stare up. I want to be looking at them when they come Picking among the dumb minerals, the roots. I see them already-the pale, star-distance faces. Now they are nothing, they are not even babies. I imagine them without fathers or mothers, like the first gods. They will wonder if I was important.

Famous Quotes / Sylvia Plath

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Sylvia Plath: "I do not want a plain box, I want a sarcophagus
With tigery stripes, and a face on it
Round as the moon, to stare up.
I want to be looking at them when they come
Picking among the dumb minerals, the roots.
I see them already-the pale, star-distance faces.
Now they are nothing, they are not even babies.
I imagine them without fathers or mothers, like the first gods.
They will wonder if I was important."

Quotations about

Alreadythe	Among	Babies	Dumb
Even	Face	Faces	Fathers
Gods	Imagine	Important	Looking
Minerals	Moon	Mothers	Nothing
Pale	Picking	Plain	Roots
Round	Sarcophagus	Stardistance	Stare
Stripes	Them	Tigery	Want
Without	Wonder

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I do not want a plain box, I want a sarcophagus With tigery stripes, and a face on it Round as the moon, to stare up. I want to be looking at them when they come Picking among the dumb minerals, the roots. I see them already-the pale, star-distance faces. Now they are nothing, they are not even babies. I imagine them without fathers or mothers, like the first gods. They will wonder if I was important. - Sylvia Plath