Inspirational Quotes by Sylvia Plath

The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

— Sylvia Plath

You smile. No, it is not fatal.

— Sylvia Plath

I have stitched life into me like a rare organ

— Sylvia Plath

What is so real as the cry of a child?

— Sylvia Plath

I may never be happy, but tonight I am content.

— Sylvia Plath

Slowly, slowly, catch the monkey.

— Sylvia Plath

I collect men with interesting names.

— Sylvia Plath

I used to pray to recover you.

— Sylvia Plath

The one man in the room who was as big as his poems, huge, with hulk and dynamic chunks of words.

— Sylvia Plath

I am so hungry for a big smashing creative burgeoning burdened love.

— Sylvia Plath

At twenty I tried to die And get back, back, back to you. I thought even the bones would do.

— Sylvia Plath

They had to call and call And pick the worms off me like sticky pearls.

— Sylvia Plath

So I kiss him, and there is the great dark sea ahead...

— Sylvia Plath

What did my fingers do before they held him? What did my heart do, with its love?

— Sylvia Plath

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell.

— Sylvia Plath

O love, how did you get here? --Nick and the Candlestick

— Sylvia Plath

You ask me why I spend my life writing? Do I find entertainment? Is it worthwhile? Above all, does it pay? If…

— Sylvia Plath

“What a man wants is is an arrow into the future and what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots…

— Sylvia Plath

And there's the fallacy of existence: the idea that one could be happy forever and age with a given situation or series…

— Sylvia Plath

Read widely of others' experiences, even if it'd be more comfortable to snuggle back in the comforting cotton-wool of blissful ignorance.

— Sylvia Plath

I began to see why woman-haters could make such fools of women. Woman-haters were like gods: invulnerable and chock full of power.…

— Sylvia Plath

You can delete me on Facebook, you can unfollow me on Twitter, you can delete my number, but you can never unlick…

— Sylvia Plath

I have no preconceptions. Whatever I see, I swallow immediately. Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike. I am not…

— Sylvia Plath

You have to be able to make a real creative life for Yourself, before you can expect anyone Else to provide one…

— Sylvia Plath

“Hurl yourself at goals above your head and bear the lacerations that come when you slip and make a fool of yourself.…

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“Anyway, there are two tentative solutions for getting rid of selfishness - both involving a stoic casting - off of the thin…

— Sylvia Plath

Love is the bone and sinew of my curse.

— Sylvia Plath

You know what lies are for.

— Sylvia Plath

The abstract kills, the concrete saves.

— Sylvia Plath

All I want is blackness. Blackness and silence.

— Sylvia Plath

Your room is not your prison. You are.

— Sylvia Plath

Once one has seen God, what is the remedy?

— Sylvia Plath

I am what I feel and think and do.

— Sylvia Plath

I have taken a pill to kill The thin Papery feeling.

— Sylvia Plath

I do not fear it: I have been there.

— Sylvia Plath

I wondered what I thought I was burying.

— Sylvia Plath

Everything in life is writable...

— Sylvia Plath

No day is safe from news of you.

— Sylvia Plath

I have suffered the atrocity of sunsets.

— Sylvia Plath

I must bridge the gap between adolescent glitter and mature glow.

— Sylvia Plath