Quotation Two

"And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt." -Sylvia Plath

          This quote could be translated into anything in life is doable if we bother trying to accomplish it. That has more of an impact because  while not everyone writes, we all live, it applies to everyone. It really does cut creativity short, always telling us that what we're thinking isn't good enough to share. Self-doubt binds us holds us back from doing what we wish we could all the time and it's something that almost everybody feels... Sylvia Plath was a writer though, mostly poetry, and she did try to write about a lot of the things that she experienced in life. Plath was considered a confessional poet meaning that she wrote in great detail about struggles that she had herself, such as mental illness and suicide. Knowing that, she probably had a lot of self doubt in her life but tried her best to keep it out of her writing so that she could share her world with people in the best way she knew how. When her husband left her she was probably dealing with a lot of emotions, many of them doubt but within two months she wrote 40 poems about rage, despair, love and vengeance. Three months later she killed herself...