Come on, man… Hemingway, Sexton, Plath, Woolf. You can't kill yourself before you're even published. — Paul Giamatti Copy Share Image
“We have conversations with each other most nights - Sylvia Plath and me!” — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
“Sylvia Plath and I met a long time ago. A really long time ago. Was it a summer day? No! It was… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
I remember coming upon Philip Larkin in my 20s in the early '60s and when Sylvia Plath's "Ariel" came out it knocked… — Stephen Dobyns Copy Share Image
“Salinger, Plath, Toole, the literature of choice for the brooding outcast.” — Rob Thomas Copy Share Image
“The blood jet is poetry, There is no stopping it. 'Kindness' by Sylvia Plath” — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Sylvia Plath wasn't scared of exploring the darker side of her psyche. — Alexis Bledel Copy Share Image
Sylvia Plath. Interesting poetess whose tragic suicide was misinterpreted as romantic by the college-girl mentality. — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
I love Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. I also love more cerebral poets like H.D. and Emily Dickinson. My parents subscribed to… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
Beachy Head brims with electrical currents flying backwards and forwards, with the force of poems that have been well fought out and… — Dorothea Lasky Copy Share Image
Look, if you ask a child, 'Would you rather have a fulfilled mother or a stay-at-home Sylvia Plath,' they'll pick Sylvia Plath… — Ayelet Waldman Copy Share Image
“And besides, I'm not a writer. I don't go to coffeehouses and smoke, wear black, and analyze Sylvia Plath to the point… — Megan McCafferty Copy Share Image
I don't mean that creative people are somehow finer, or more sensitive, and thus have finer, more sensitive nervous breakdowns - you… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Maybe if I could slip into Sylvia's mind, sort out the spices in her rack, alphabetize them and dust them off. Maybe… — Kelli Russell Agodon Copy Share Image
“Sylvia Plath is there for me when actual living people upon who I have depended upon my whole life, are not. What… — Arlaina Tibensky Copy Share Image
“Lydia sometimes saw Plath as the woman she might someday become: caring, creative, content—but inaccessible to nearly everyone alive.” — Matthew J. Sullivan Copy Share Image
But you have to understand, mental illness is like cholesterol. There is is good kind and the bad. Without the good kind-… — Tim Dorsey Copy Share Image
For throughout history, you can read the stories of women who - against all the odds - got being a woman right,… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
With ferocity and extraordinary craft, Lizzie Harris has made a book of poems that resonates far beyond the personal stories it tells.… — Meghan O'Rourke Copy Share Image
Like all twenty-one-year-old poets, I thought I would be dead by thirty, and Sylvia Plath had not set a helpful example. For… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“I began to realize, with some little horror, that she was nothing more than a lowbrow, pop-psychology version of Sylvia Plath. It… — Donna Tartt Copy Share Image
If you're going to get up to Walt Whitman and Robert Frost and Langston Hughes and Sylvia Plath you've got to figure… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
“If I was going to kill myself,” Plath continued, “I’d leave a note just to get a few last digs in. Insult… — Matthew J. Sullivan Copy Share Image
Our suicidal poets (Plath, Berryman, Lowell, Jarrell, et al.) spent too much of their lives inside rooms and classrooms when they should… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Like Sylvia Plath, Natalie Jeanne Champagne invites you so close to the pain and agony of her life of mental illness and… — Andy Behrman Copy Share Image
“Plath suffered the airless egocentrism of one in love with an ideal self.” — Pinsky Copy Share Image
Augustine, Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath are confessional writers and all three make me sick. I have nothing in common with them. — Joni Mitchell Copy Share Image
It would be amazing to play Sylvia Plath. She was so dark, and what came out of her writing was troubled and… — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
Sylvia Plath was just a month and a half older than I, and when she committed suicide I was only 30 -… — Anne Stevenson Copy Share Image
“If too much has been made of the symptoms of Plath’s mental illness, so too little attention has been paid to its… — Andrew Wilson Copy Share Image
I loved 1930's women's pictures'films by Josef Von Sternberg or William Wyler. So, I fashioned a style out of that. The integrity… — Kola Boof Copy Share Image
People who think that Sylvia Plath was a poor, sensitive poet are not getting that she had great amounts of ambition and… — Elizabeth Wurtzel Copy Share Image
[Short Talk on Sylvia Plath] Did you see her mother on television? She said plain, burned things. She said I thought it… — Anne Carson Copy Share Image
![“[Short Talk on Sylvia Plath] Did you see her mother on television? She said plain, burned things. She said I thought it an excellent poem but it hurt me. She did not say jungle fear. She did not say jungle hatred wild jungle weeping chop it back chop it. She said self-government she said end of…” quote by Anne Carson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/80e/anne-carson-1985_air_short-talk-on-sylvia-plath-did-you-see-h_1898642.jpg)