World Quotes by Sylvia Plath

I must be lean & write & make worlds beside this to live in.

— Sylvia Plath

I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow.

— Sylvia Plath

It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me.

— Sylvia Plath

Your body Hurts me as the world hurts God

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Doing all the little tricky things it takes to grow up, step by step, into an anxious and unsettling world.

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Didn't you know I'm going to be the greatest, most entertaining author and artist in the world? Well, don't feel badly, I…

— Sylvia Plath

I need not to be more with others, but to be more & more deeply, richly alone. Recreating worlds.

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I have the one person I could ever love in this world. Now I must work to be a person worthy of…

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To the person in the bell jar, blank and stopped as a dead baby, the world itself is a bad dream.

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It is a terrible thing to be so open: it is as if my heart put on a face and walked into…

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I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.

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To annihilate the world by annihilation of oneself is the deluded height of desperate egoism.

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To look at her, you might not guess that inside she is laughing and crying, at her own stupidities and luckiness, and…

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I want to force myself again and again to leave the warmth and security of static situations and move into the world…

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Since my woman's world is perceived greatly through the emotions and the senses, I treat it that way in my writing -…

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Feel oddly barren. My sickness is when words draw in their horns and the physical world refuses to be ordered, recreated, arranged…

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..I fancied you'd return the way you said, But I grow old and I forget your name. (I think I made you…

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I felt like a racehorse in a world without racetracks or a champion college footballer suddenly confronted by Wall Street and a…

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Is to throw together events from my own life, fictionalizing to add color—it’s a pot boiler really, but I think it will…

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A man's world is different from a woman's world and a man's emotions are different from a woman's emotions and only marriage…

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Last year a friend went dark in a nervous city alone, the sea flashing against his glasses, the sea sorted out at…

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This is newness: every little tawdry Obstacle glass-wrapped and peculiar, Glinting and clinking in a saint's falsetto. Only you Don't know what…

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You have lost all delight in life. Ahead is a large array of blind alleys. You are half-deliberately, half-desperately cutting off your…

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I do not love; I do not love anybody except myself. That is a rather shocking thing to admit. I have none…

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I am not a historian, but I find myself being more and more fascinated by history and now I find myself reading…

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When I was nineteen, pureness was the great issue. Instead of the world being divided up into Catholics and Protestants or Republicans…

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I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow, the million moving shapes and cul-de-sacs of shadow. There was…

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I lay and cried, and began to feel again, to admit I was human, vulnerable, sensitive. I began to remember how it…

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As from a star I saw, coldly and soberly, the separateness of everything. I felt the wall of my skin; I am…

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Outcast on a cold star, unable to feel anything but an awful helpless numbness. I look down into the warm, earthy world.…

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I feel, am mad as any writer must in one way be; why not make it real? I am too close to…

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I felt proud that the baby's first real adventure should be as a protest against the insanity of world annihilation. Already a…

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What I hate is the thought of being under a man's thumb," I had told Doctor Nolan. "A man doesn't have a…

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If every soldier refused to take arms ... there would be no wars; but no one has the courage to be the…

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Why the hell are we conditioned into the smooth strawberry-and-cream Mother-Goose-world, Alice-in-Wonderland fable, only to be broken on the wheel as we…

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Don't talk to me about the world needing cheerful stuff! What the person out of Belsen physical or psychological wants is nobody…

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I am accused. I dream of massacres. I am a garden of black and red agonies. I drink them, Hating myself, hating…

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I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my lids and all is born again. (I think I…

— Sylvia Plath

The lyric abstrusities of Auden ring mystically down the circular canals of my ear and it begins to look like snow. The…

— Sylvia Plath