THAT crazed girl improvising her music. Her poetry, dancing upon the shore, Her soul in division from itself Climbing, falling She knew not where, Hiding amid the cargo of a steamship, Her knee-cap broken, that girl I declare A beautiful lofty thing, or a thing Heroically lost, heroically found. No matter what disaster occurred She stood in desperate music wound, Wound, wound, and she made in her triumph Where the bales and the baskets lay No common intelligible sound But sang, 'O sea-starved, hungry sea . W.b. Yeats
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The poem by Sylvia Plath that this quote is taken from is a beautiful example of the power of poetry and how somebody who is down to their last breath can still write a poetic masterpiece. This poem captures the essence of life from the point of view of a person who has been through it all and still manages to find beauty in all that has happened. There was something about the way she used the words “sea-starved, hungry sea” that made me stop and think about how fragile life really was. Words like these show us just how powerful poetry is and how important it is that we continue to write our own poems or sing them out loud.

Source: The Collected Poems Of W.b. Yeats

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