Sylvia Plath's Quotes

Sylvia Plath's Quotes 38

But life is long. And it is the long run that balances the short flare of...

I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively...

Kiss me and you will see how important I am.

It is as if my life were magically run by two electric currents: joyous...

The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it.

I saw the gooseflesh on my skin. I did not know what made it. I was not cold....

Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline. You've got to go so far so fast...

Poetry at its best can do you a lot of harm.

I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.

My mother had taught shorthand and typing to support us since my father died,...

I have a visual imagination.

What a man is is an arrow into the future, and what a woman is is the place...

Freedom is not of use to those who do not know how to employ it.

We fitted, amusingly enough, into none of the form categories of 'The Young...

I want to live and feel all the shades, tones, and variations of mental and...

In London the day after Christmas (Boxing Day), it began to snow: my first...

Now and then, when I grow nostalgic about my ocean childhood - the wauling of...

My mother's face floated to mind, a pale, reproachful moon, at her last and...

Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so...

The worst enemy to creativity is self doubt.

I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.

"I dreamed that you bewitched me into bed

"This is newness: every little tawdry

"I am solitary as grass. What is it I miss?

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