--- title: "5 Dumb Quotes By Sylvia Plath" description: "5 Dumb quotes by Sylvia Plath. Plus more from Sylvia Plath and more Dumb sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dd3/sylvia-plath-149_auden_the-lyric-abstrusities-of-auden-ring-mys_798923.jpg" --- > [The lyric abstrusities of Auden ring mystically down the circular canals of my ear and it begins to look like snow. The…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/the-lyric-abstrusities-of-auden-ring-mystically-down-the-circular/) [Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dd3/sylvia-plath-149_auden_the-lyric-abstrusities-of-auden-ring-mys_798923.jpg) > [I felt dumb and subdued. Every time I tried to concentrate, my mind glided off, like a skater, into a large empty…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/i-felt-dumb-and-subdued-every-time-i-tried-to-concentrate-my-mind/) [Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2d7/sylvia-plath-149_dumb_i-felt-dumb-and-subdued-every-time-i-tri_943600.jpg) > [One night she hid the pink cotton scarf from her raincoat in the pillowcase when the nurse came around to lock up…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/one-night-she-hid-the-pink-cotton-scarf-from-her-raincoat-in-the/) [Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fa6/sylvia-plath-149_air_one-night-she-hid-the-pink-cotton-scarf_974355.jpg) > [Winter is for women The woman still at her knitting, At the cradle of Spanish walnut, Her body a bulb in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/winter-is-for-women-the-woman-still-at-her-knitting-at-the-cradle-of/) [Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/33d/sylvia-plath-149_body_winter-is-for-women-the-woman-still-at-h_1048188.jpg) > [I do not want a plain box, I want a sarcophagus With tigery stripes, and a face on it Round as the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/i-do-not-want-a-plain-box-i-want-a-sarcophagus-with-tigery-stripes/) [Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2cf/sylvia-plath-149_baby_i-do-not-want-a-plain-box-i-want-a-sarco_2791591.jpg) ## Other authors on Dumb ## More by Sylvia Plath > [“It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/it-was-a-queer-sultry-summer-the-summer-they-electrocuted-the/) [Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/) > [I love life. But it is hard and I have so much, so very much to learn.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/i-love-life-but-it-is-hard-and-i-have-so-much-so-very-much-to-learn/) [Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/) > [... These are my hands My knees. I may be skin and bone, Nevertheless, I am the same, identical woman. ... --Lady Lazarus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/these-are-my-hands-my-knees-i-may-be-skin-and-bone-nevertheless-i-am/) [Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/) > [Sure, I’m dramatic and sloppily semi-cynical and semi-sentimental. But, in leisure years I could grow and choose my way. Now I am living on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/sure-i-m-dramatic-and-sloppily-semi-cynical-and-semi-sentimental-but/) [Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/) > [“People were made of nothing so much as dust, and I couldn't see that doctoring all that dust was a bit better than writing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/people-were-made-of-nothing-so-much-as-dust-and-i-couldn-t-see-that/) [Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/) > [“I couldn't stand the idea of a woman having to have a single pure life and a man being able to have a double…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/i-couldn-t-stand-the-idea-of-a-woman-having-to-have-a-single-pure/) [Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/) > [I saw the gooseflesh on my skin. I did not know what made it. I was not cold. Had a ghost passed over? No,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/i-saw-the-gooseflesh-on-my-skin-i-did-not-know-what-made-it-i-was-not/) [Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/) > [I have to live my life, and it is the only one I’ll ever have.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/i-have-to-live-my-life-and-it-is-the-only-one-i-ll-ever-have/) [Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/) > [“The city had faded my tan, though. I looked yellow as a Chinaman. Ordinarily, I would have been nervous about my dress and my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/the-city-had-faded-my-tan-though-i-looked-yellow-as-a-chinaman/) [Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/) > [Joy:show joy & enjoy: then others will be joyful.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/joy-show-joy-enjoy-then-others-will-be-joyful/) [Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/) > [A million years of evolution, Eric said bitterly, and what are we? Animals.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/a-million-years-of-evolution-eric-said-bitterly-and-what-are-we/) [Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/) > [“I have stitched life into me like a rare organ --from "Three Women: A Poem for Three Voices", written 1962”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/i-have-stitched-life-into-me-like-a-rare-organ-from-three-women-a/) [Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/) > [It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/it-is-so-much-safer-not-to-feel-not-to-let-the-world-touch-me/) [Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/) > [“Flute Notes from a Reedy Pond" Now coldness comes sifting down, layer after layer, To our bower at the lily root. Overhead the old…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/flute-notes-from-a-reedy-pond-now-coldness-comes-sifting-down-layer/) [Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/) > [“The most saddening thing is to admit that I am not in love. I can only love (if that means self denial - or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sylvia-plath/the-most-saddening-thing-is-to-admit-that-i-am-not-in-love-i-can-only/) [Sylvia Plath](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sylvia-plath/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/dumb/sylvia-plath/#itemlist", "name": "5 Dumb Quotes By Sylvia Plath", "numberOfItems": 5, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "The lyric abstrusities of Auden ring mystically down the circular canals of my ear and it begins to look like snow. The good gray conservative obliterating snow. 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