# Quote — Sylvia Plath, The Colossus

> So many of us!
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> So many of us!We are shelves, we are
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> Tables, we are meek,
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> We are edible,Nudgers and shovers
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> In spite of ourselves.
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> Our kind multiplies:We shall by morning
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> Inherit the earth.
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> Our foot's in the door.

- Author: [Sylvia Plath](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sylvia-plath.md)
- Book: [The Colossus](https://www.leafyquotes.com/sylvia-plath/the-colossus.md)
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