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Sylvia Plath

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We have conversations most nights, Sylvia Plath and me. On these cold wintry nights with our coffee ...
AVIJEET DAS Sylvia Plath was just a month and a half older than I, and when she committed suicide I was only 30 ...
ANNE STEVENSON My world falls apart, crumbles, “The centre cannot hold.” There is no integrating force, only th...
SYLVIA PLATH Here I am, a bundle of past recollections and future dreams, knotted up in a reasonably attractive b...
SYLVIA PLATH I love Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. I also love more cerebral poets like H.D. and Emily Dickinson. ...
FRANCESCA LIA BLOCK [Short Talk on Sylvia Plath] Did you see her mother on television? She said plain, burned things. Sh...
ANNE CARSON ...it wouldn't have made one scrap of difference to me, because wherever I sat - on the deck of a sh...
SYLVIA PLATH I wanted to be where nobody I knew could ever come.
SYLVIA PLATH We have conversations with each other most nights - Sylvia Plath and me!
AVIJEET DAS It was definitely nerves. I started thinking about my lyrics way, way, way too much when I got onsta...
MELISSA MCGHEE Sylvia Plath is there for me when actual living people upon who I have depended upon my whole life, ...
ARLAINA TIBENSKY Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out o...
SYLVIA PLATH If you dissect a bird / to diagram the tongue, / you'll cut the chord / articulating song.
SYLVIA PLATH And besides, I'm not a writer. I don't go to coffeehouses and smoke, wear black, and analyze Sylvia ...
MEGAN MCCAFFERTY It was more mental than anything. She got in my head and I shouldn't have let her, but I did. I was ...
LAIME CONTRERAS Too much thinking makes you loose yourself, to little thinking makes you a fool of yourself.
OLASOT I got tight and was thinking about my injury and things got worse
JUSTINE HENIN-HARDENNE You don't know what it's like to grow up with a mother who never said a positive thing in her life, ...
JUNOT DíAZ The time I spent thinking about how I was better than somebody else or worrying about somebody else&...
CHARLEY PRIDE Some things are hard to write about. After something happens to you, you go to write it down, and ei...
SYLVIA PLATH I have stitched life into me like a rare organ
SYLVIA PLATH That afternoon my mother had brought me the roses.
"Save them for my funeral," I'd said.
SYLVIA PLATH To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream.
SYLVIA PLATH Hastanenin arazisi yeni yağmış karla örtülüydü -bu bir Noel serpintisi değil, ocak ayının ...
SYLVIA PLATH Pazar - doktorların cenneti! Doktorlar özel kulüplerde, doktorlar deniz kıyısında, doktorlar m...
SYLVIA PLATH Durumun ne kadar umutsuzsa, seni o kadar uzağa saklamaya çalışırlar.
SYLVIA PLATH Kafamda akıl namına ne kalmışsa onu kullanarak bedenimi tuzağa düşürmem gerekiyordu, yoksa b...
SYLVIA PLATH Kendimi bu güneşte, bir melek kadar ince ve uçucu bir hale gelene dek bir bıçak gibi bilemek is...
SYLVIA PLATH Hasta insanları şımartmamak lazım, şımartılmak onlara kötü gelir, kendilerine gelmeleri iç...
SYLVIA PLATH The absurdity of its illegality has been clear to me for some time. I learned about pot from my kids...
GEORGE SOROS I started stem cells when I wanted to find a cure for my mother, who I loved very much, and western ...
PETER NYGARD The pity is not that there is a myth of Sylvia Plath but that the myth is not simply that of an enor...
AL ÁLVAREZ I really wasn't thinking about it. I was thinking attack. I took off too far. I just missed a dunk.
CANDACE PARKER My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and d...
VICTOR BORGE I had to seal off my feelings about Stevie while seeing her every day and having to help her, too. B...
LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, "Look for the ...
FRED ROGERS After 2000, the concern was that paper could be messed up. Now the cure has become worse than the di...
DAN SELIGSON There is no theoretical study of motherhood. You know, before I became a mother, I did play a mother...
JOAN CHEN Augustine, Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath are confessional writers and all three make me sick. I have ...
JONI MITCHELL I think it was a lot worse than it was. He really wasn't paying much attention; I kind of caught him...
CURTIS PAINTER Sylvia quotes Dick as telling her: "I am afraid the demands of wifehood and motherhood would preoccu...
ELIZABETH WINDER We learned about dignity and decency - that how hard you work matters more than how much you make......
MICHELLE OBAMA Not easy to state the change you made.
If I'm alive now, I was dead,
Though, like a stone,...
SYLVIA PLATH I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies -- thinking that those who care about us...
D. H. (DAVID HERBERT) LAWRENCE I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies--thinking that those who care about us w...
D.H. LAWRENCE When I was born, the doctor looked at my mother and said, 'Congratulations, you have an actor!&#...
SALLY FIELD His thinking was a little off and too complicated.
MICHAEL ASSAEL That's not a play that should be in hockey. You can definitely hurt somebody worse than I was hurt.
KYLE WELLWOOD I know,' I said, thinking about the trip my mother had wanted me to take, and the trip we'd ended up...
MORGAN MATSON I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
SYLVIA PLATH Even amongst fierce flames/ The golden lotus can be planted.
BHAGAVID-GITA Life was not to be sitting in hot amorphic leisure in my backyard idly writing or not writing, as th...
SYLVIA PLATH When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, 'Look for ...
FRED ROGERS Thinking about the devil is worse than seeing the devil.
BRANCH RICKEY This is the problem about thinking about something else to take your mind off something. It works fo...
MARCELO FIGUERAS I told my mother-in-law that my house was her house, and she said, 'Get the hell off my property...
JOAN RIVERS Some people say you have to fight cancer. But it was fighting me. The cure was worse than the diseas...
MAGGIE SMITH My mind is killing me”
— The Glass Child, Stuck In My Mind
CHARLOTTE ERIKSSON Lindsay was a teenager...at the height of that weird mixture of thinking you know everything and car...
J.D. VANCE There I went again, building up a glamorous picture of a man who would love me passionately the minu...
VIV ALBERTINE What was it Isak Dinesen had said about salt as a cure? Tears, sweat, or the sea. She could use a cu...
NINA POST Last time I saw you, I said that it hurt too much to love you. But I was wrong about that. The truth...
P.C. CAST My father was slower, but he was severer than my mother, who was quick but light and irregular in di...
LINCOLN STEFFENS I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about...
D. H. LAWRENCE My mother was a classical pianist and my stepfather was an industrialist who was passionate about co...
CARLA BRUNI If the deal bombs, he's no worse off than he was before.
KURT BILLICK are much worse than what Sen. Lott said.
MITCH MCCONNELL Well it looks worse than it feels, it really is a good thing I am so damn pretty or this would reall...
NICOLE EGLINGER Somewhere deep inside me was the will and determination not only to live, but to be a more present m...
ALANA STEWART livid, adj.

Fuck You for cheating on me. Fuck you for reducing it to the word chea...
DAVID LEVITHAN I wasn't thinking so much about the hurricane. I was thinking about them. I was worried about all my...
ANDY LEGGIO My mother used to say, "He who angers you, conquers you!" But my mother was a saint.
ELIZABETH KENNY I was never that good on stage with live improv. I was much better on film or writing something and ...
BILL HADER I was raised a Catholic and when you're raised a Catholic they don't teach you to think for ...
ABEL FERRARA He (Bob Marley) had this idea, it was kind of a virologist idea, he believed he could cure racism an...
BOB MARLEY Ellen had said that her mother was afraid of the ocean, that it was too cold and too big. The sky wa...
LOIS LOWRY The rules only applied to
people who couldn’t afford different rules.
CAMERON STRACHER When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn't know.
SYLVIA PLATH I need more than anything right now what is, of course, most impossible, someone to love me, to be w...
SYLVIA PLATH It was much worse than the so-called negro. It's about a triple form of discrimination -race, langua...
DAN KLORES I was working there and thinking about my grandfather, an ironworker who was a Teamster.
JOANNE KNOEBEL You guys left him for dead, said he was all washed up. Somebody was wrong.
BYRON LEFTWICH Manners are nothing more than thinking about somebody else.
LETITIA BALDRIGE You're stressing too much about what might be. Do something to take your mind off thinking about wha...
SIMONE ELKELES I hope you don't really see yourself that way," I said.
He turned to look at me and narrowed hi...
KATIE ALENDER After making love I said to my girl, "Was it good for you too?" And she said, "I don't think this wa...
GARRY SHANDLING For 10 minutes, I was somebody's mother, and that was both the most traumatic and also the most ...
ARIEL LEVY I said something really stupid once. I told a friend that my mother was so beautiful, but my dad was...
GENE WILDER When I was eight years old I went to visit my brother who was working on a movie of the week with my...
MACKENZIE ASTIN There's nothing worse than finishing your last take on a movie and thinking, 'God! I finally...
JAMIE CAMPBELL BOWER It would have been dangerous to run. In hindsight, the more we looked at it the worse it was. Whatev...
BERNIE ECCLESTONE The most surprising thing for my mother and father was when I was actually earning more money than t...
DIANE CILENTO People who think that Sylvia Plath was a poor, sensitive poet are not getting that she had great amo...
ELIZABETH WURTZEL The chemotherapy was very peculiar, something that makes you feel much worse than the cancer itself,...
MAGGIE SMITH It is perhaps fortunate that Sylvia was oblivious to the commotion behind the scenes. Apparently, He...
ELIZABETH WINDER Without Sierra, Sylvia really had nobody else. So great was her need for social bonding that Sylvia ...
ANNE ENGH Back so soon?" he asked. "Too bad. I was just about to organize a search for your dead body. What ha...
MARIA V. SNYDER Sometimes people complicate things by thinking too much about what someone might think of what they ...
DEREK JETER A very dirty little fellow came in from playing in the yard and asked his mother, "Who am I?" Ready...
UNKNOWN Lift up your two hands; remember one is for helping others while the other is for helping you. Give ...
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If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic...
SYLVIA PLATH I don't believe that the meek will inherit the earth; The meek get ignored and trampled.
SYLVIA PLATH There is so much hurt in this game of searching for a mate, of testing, trying. And you realize sudd...
SYLVIA PLATH I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad.
SYLVIA PLATH What I want back is what I was.
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SYLVIA PLATH Indecision and reveries are the anesthetics of constructive action.
SYLVIA PLATH How frail the human heart must be - a mirrored pool of thought.
SYLVIA PLATH It is as if my life were magically run by two electric currents: joyous positive and despairing nega...
SYLVIA PLATH If you expect nothing from anybody, you're never disappointed.
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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 a...
SYLVIA PLATH dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I ...
SYLVIA PLATH Now and then, when I grow nostalgic about my ocean childhood - the wauling of gulls and the smell of...
SYLVIA PLATH I see in Cambridge, particularly among the women dons, a series of such grotesques! It is almost lik...
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SYLVIA PLATH I never wanted to get married. The last thing I wanted was infinite security and to be the place an ...
SYLVIA PLATH What I want back is what I was Before the bed, before the knife, Before the brooch-pin and the salve...
SYLVIA PLATH I do not want a plain box, I want a sarcophagus With tigery stripes, and a face on it Round as the m...
SYLVIA PLATH For me, poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose.
SYLVIA PLATH I lean to you, numb as a fossil. Tell me I'm here.
SYLVIA PLATH Apparently, the most difficult feat for a Cambridge male is to accept a woman not merely as feeling,...
SYLVIA PLATH I felt very still and empty, the way the eye of a tornado must feel, moving dully along in the middl...
SYLVIA PLATH I have never found anybody who could stand to accept the daily demonstrative love I feel in me, and ...
SYLVIA PLATH I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I...
SYLVIA PLATH I told him I believed in hell, and that certain people, like me, had to live in hell before they die...
SYLVIA PLATH How we need another soul to cling to.
SYLVIA PLATH I talk to God but the sky is empty.
SYLVIA PLATH I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
SYLVIA PLATH I wonder why I don't go to bed and go to sleep. But then it would be tomorrow, so I decide that no m...
SYLVIA PLATH Yes, I was infatuated with you: I am still. No one has ever heightened such a keen capacity of physi...
SYLVIA PLATH God, but life is loneliness, despite all the opiates, despite the shrill tinsel gaiety of "parties" ...
SYLVIA PLATH And the danger is that in this move toward new horizons and far directions, that I may lose what I h...
SYLVIA PLATH Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out o...
SYLVIA PLATH Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting...
SYLVIA PLATH I woke to the sound of rain.
SYLVIA PLATH Is there no way out of the mind?
SYLVIA PLATH The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it.
SYLVIA PLATH How frail the human heart must be --a mirrored pool of thought...
SYLVIA PLATH I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.
SYLVIA PLATH Widow. The word consumes itself.
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SYLVIA PLATH The man creates a pseudonym and hides behind it like a worm
SYLVIA PLATH Kiss me and you will see how important I am.
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SYLVIA PLATH Every woman adores a Fascist.
SYLVIA PLATH I pass by people, grazing them on the edges, and it bothers me. I've got to admire someone to re...
SYLVIA PLATH I felt proud that the baby's first real adventure should be as a protest against the insanity of...
SYLVIA PLATH I have felt great advances in my poetry, the main one being a growing victory over word nuances and ...
SYLVIA PLATH I am a victim of introspection.
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SYLVIA PLATH I remember that as I was writing a poem on 'Snow' when I was eight, I said aloud, 'I wis...
SYLVIA PLATH Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline. You've got to go so far so fast in such a small spac...
SYLVIA PLATH I saw the gooseflesh on my skin. I did not know what made it. I was not cold. Had a ghost passed ove...
SYLVIA PLATH Poetry at its best can do you a lot of harm.
SYLVIA PLATH I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.
SYLVIA PLATH When you are insane, you are busy being insane - all the time.
SYLVIA PLATH I hope to submit to the little pamphlet magazines here 'freelance' and perhaps shall join th...
SYLVIA PLATH I want to live and feel all the shades, tones, and variations of mental and physical experience poss...
SYLVIA PLATH Excellent teachers showered on to us like meteors: Biology teachers holding up human brains, English...
SYLVIA PLATH And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the...
SYLVIA PLATH The blood jet is poetry
There is no stopping it.
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SYLVIA PLATH Why do we electrocute men for murdering an individual and then pin a purple heart on them for mass s...
SYLVIA PLATH Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.
SYLVIA PLATH The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
SYLVIA PLATH A little thing, like children putting flowers in my hair, can fill up the widening cracks in my self...
SYLVIA PLATH I buried my head under the darkness of the pillow and pretended it was night. I couldn't see the poi...
SYLVIA PLATH Let's face it: I'm scared, scared and frozen. First, I guess I'm afraid for myself... the old primit...
SYLVIA PLATH Living with him is like being told a perpetual story: his mind is the biggest, most imaginative I ha...
SYLVIA PLATH I do not love; I do not love anybody except myself. That is a rather shocking thing to admit. I have...
SYLVIA PLATH Some things are hard to write about. After something happens to you, you go to write it down, and ei...
SYLVIA PLATH Yes, my consuming desire is to mingle with road crews, sailors and soldiers, barroom regulars—to b...
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SYLVIA PLATH I want to taste and glory in each day, and never be afraid to experience pain; and never shut myself...
SYLVIA PLATH Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty toge...
SYLVIA PLATH I love people. Everybody. I love them, I think, as a stamp collector loves his collection. Every sto...
SYLVIA PLATH I don’t care about anyone, and the feeling is quite obviously mutual.
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SYLVIA PLATH I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.
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SYLVIA PLATH Can you understand? Someone, somewhere, can you understand me a little, love me a little? For all my...
SYLVIA PLATH I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.
SYLVIA PLATH And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at ...
SYLVIA PLATH let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences
SYLVIA PLATH I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can ...
SYLVIA PLATH In London the day after Christmas (Boxing Day), it began to snow: my first snow in England. For five...
SYLVIA PLATH My childhood landscape was not land but the end of the land - the cold, salt, running hills of the A...
SYLVIA PLATH My mother's face floated to mind, a pale, reproachful moon, at her last and first visit to the a...
SYLVIA PLATH Today is the first of August. It is hot, steamy and wet. It is raining. I am tempted to write a poem...
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SYLVIA PLATH Mother believed that I should have an enormous amount of sleep, and so I was never really tired when...
SYLVIA PLATH There must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.
SYLVIA PLATH There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.
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SYLVIA PLATH Believe in some beneficent force beyond your own limited self. God, god, god: where are you? I want ...
SYLVIA PLATH I want Books and Babies and Beef stews.
SYLVIA PLATH If they substituted the word 'Lust' for 'Love' in the popular songs it would come nearer the truth.
SYLVIA PLATH A skeptic, I would ask for consistency first of all.
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SYLVIA PLATH I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow.
SYLVIA PLATH If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
SYLVIA PLATH I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every br...
SYLVIA PLATH There are times when a feeling of expectancy comes to me, as if something is there, beneath the surf...
SYLVIA PLATH If I have not the power to put myself in the place of other people, but must be continually burrowin...
SYLVIA PLATH When I was learning to creep, my mother set me down on the beach to see what I thought of it. I craw...
SYLVIA PLATH I think the sea swallowed dozens of tea sets - tossed in abandon off liners or consigned to the tide...
SYLVIA PLATH Mad Girl's Love Song

I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my lids and...
SYLVIA PLATH Since my woman's world is perceived greatly through the emotions and the senses, I treat it that...
SYLVIA PLATH I must discipline myself. I must be imaginative and create plots, knit motives, probe dialogue - rat...
SYLVIA PLATH I am inhabited by a cry. Nightly it flaps out Looking, with its hooks, for something to love. I am t...
SYLVIA PLATH If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as...
SYLVIA PLATH I wish to cry. Yet, I laugh, and my lipstick leaves a red stain like a bloody crescent moon on the t...
SYLVIA PLATH I began to think vodka was my drink at last. It didn’t taste like anything, but it went straight d...
SYLVIA PLATH because wherever I sat—on the deck of a ship or at a street café in Paris or Bangkok—I would be...
SYLVIA PLATH I didn’t want my picture taken because I was going to cry. I didn’t know why I was going to cry,...
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SYLVIA PLATH I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows fr...
SYLVIA PLATH What does one woman see in another than a man cannot see? Tenderness
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SYLVIA PLATH That is how it stiffens, my vision of that seaside childhood. My father died; we moved inland. Where...
SYLVIA PLATH We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.
SYLVIA PLATH There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, ...
SYLVIA PLATH I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my eyes and all is born again.
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SYLVIA PLATH Everybody had to go to some college or other. A business college, a junior college, a state college,...
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SYLVIA PLATH When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn't know.
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SYLVIA PLATH So many people are shut up tight inside themselves like boxes, yet they would open up, unfolding qui...
SYLVIA PLATH I am terrified by this dark thing
That sleeps in me;
All day I feel its soft, feathery tur...
SYLVIA PLATH A baby! I hated babies. I, who for two and a half years had been the center of a tender universe, fe...
SYLVIA PLATH One should be able to control and manipulate experiences with an informed and intelligent mind.
SYLVIA PLATH Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become a...
SYLVIA PLATH That afternoon my mother had brought me the roses.
"Save them for my funeral," I'd said.
SYLVIA PLATH My mother had taught shorthand and typing to support us since my father died, and secretly she hated...
SYLVIA PLATH After all, I wasn't crippled in any way, I just studied too hard, I didn't know when to stop.
SYLVIA PLATH I am too pure for you or anyone.

From the poem "Fever 103°", 20 October 1962
SYLVIA PLATH If the moon smiled, she would resemble you.
You leave the same impression
Of something be...
SYLVIA PLATH I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.
SYLVIA PLATH I think that personal experience is very important, but certainly it shouldn't be a kind of shut...
SYLVIA PLATH The thought that I might kill myself formed in my mind coolly as a tree or a flower.
SYLVIA PLATH How frail the human heart must be―a mirrored pool of thought.
SYLVIA PLATH I may never be happy, but tonight I am content. Nothing more than an empty house, the warm hazy wear...
SYLVIA PLATH Ennui

Tea leaves thwart those who court catastrophe,
designing futures where nothing...
SYLVIA PLATH I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.
SYLVIA PLATH Ever since I was small I loved feeling somebody comb my hair. It made me go all sleepy and peaceful.
SYLVIA PLATH If you love her", I said, "you'll love somebody else someday.
SYLVIA PLATH I don't know how long I kept at it...
I felt reasonably safe, streched out on the floor, and la...
SYLVIA PLATH The next five months are grim ones. I always feel sorry to have the summertime change, with the dark...
SYLVIA PLATH Freedom is not of use to those who do not know how to employ it.
SYLVIA PLATH There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.
SYLVIA PLATH What does one woman see in another than a man cannot see? Tenderness
SYLVIA PLATH Doing all the little tricky things it takes to grow up, step by step, into an anxious and unsettling...
SYLVIA PLATH I love him to hell and back and heaven and back, and have and do and will
SYLVIA PLATH My body is a pebble to them, they tend it as water tends to the pebbles it must run over, smoothing ...
SYLVIA PLATH ...I still expected to see Doreen's body lying there in the pool of vomit like an ugly, concrete tes...
SYLVIA PLATH I felt like a race horse in a world without racetracks or a champion college footballer suddenly con...
SYLVIA PLATH Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing.
SYLVIA PLATH Tree and Stone glittered, without shadows.My finger-length grew lucent as glass.I started to bud lik...
SYLVIA PLATH If I didn't think, I'd be much happier; if I didn't have any sex organs, I wouldn't waver on the bri...
SYLVIA PLATH The human mind is so limited it can only build an arbitrary heaven — and usually the physical comf...
SYLVIA PLATH I felt dumb and subdued. Every time I tried to concentrate, my mind glided off, like a skater, into ...
SYLVIA PLATH So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.
SYLVIA PLATH I want to write because I have the urge to excel in one medium of translation and expression of life...
SYLVIA PLATH How can you be so many women to so many strange people, oh you strange girl?
SYLVIA PLATH There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.
SYLVIA PLATH I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make...
SYLVIA PLATH I think I may well be a Jew.
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SYLVIA PLATH Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s he...
SYLVIA PLATH There I went again, building up a glamorous picture of a man who would love me passionately the minu...
SYLVIA PLATH I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow, the million moving shapes and cul-de...
SYLVIA PLATH The floor seemed wonderfully solid. It was comforting to know I had fallen and could fall no farther...
SYLVIA PLATH I didn't know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too clo...
SYLVIA PLATH I couldn’t see the point of getting up. I had nothing to look forward to.
SYLVIA PLATH But when it came right down to it, the skin of my wrist looked so white and defensless that I couldn...
SYLVIA PLATH I felt wise and cynical as all hell.
SYLVIA PLATH I was supposed to be having the time of my life.
SYLVIA PLATH That’s one of the reasons I never wanted to get married. The last thing I wanted was infinite secu...
SYLVIA PLATH To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream.
SYLVIA PLATH When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn’t know.
"Oh, sure you know," the photogr...
SYLVIA PLATH The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn't thought about it.
SYLVIA PLATH The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence.
SYLVIA PLATH What a man wants is a mate and what a woman wants is infinite security,’ and, ‘What a man is is ...
SYLVIA PLATH So I began to think maybe it was true that when you were married and had children it was like being ...
SYLVIA PLATH I Am Vertical

But I would rather be horizontal.
I am not a tree with my root in the ...
SYLVIA PLATH The slime of all my yesterdays rots in the hollow of my skull.
SYLVIA PLATH What did my arms do before they held you?
SYLVIA PLATH I think my poems immediately come out of the sensuous and emotional experiences I have.
SYLVIA PLATH Is anyone anywhere happy?
SYLVIA PLATH I guess I should have reacted the way most of the other girls were, but I couldn't get myself to rea...
SYLVIA PLATH I didn't want my picture taken because I was going to cry. I didn't know why I was going to cry, but...
SYLVIA PLATH What is so real as the cry of a child?
A rabbit's cry may be wilder
But it has no soul.
SYLVIA PLATH You will never win anyone through pity. You must create the right kind of dream, the sober, adult ki...
SYLVIA PLATH It is as if my life were magically run by two electric currents: joyous positive and despairing nega...
SYLVIA PLATH Hastanenin arazisi yeni yağmış karla örtülüydü -bu bir Noel serpintisi değil, ocak ayının ...
SYLVIA PLATH Pazar - doktorların cenneti! Doktorlar özel kulüplerde, doktorlar deniz kıyısında, doktorlar m...
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