All Sylvia Plath Quotes
- Some things are hard to write about. After something happens to you, you go to write it down, and either you over dramatize it, or… Any
- In this particular tub, two knees jut up like icebergs, while minute brown hairs rise on arms and legs in a fringe of kelp; green… Among
- I hurl my heart to halt his pace. Halt
- I think I may well be a Jew. Jew
- I write only because There is a voice within me That will not be still Inspirational
- I have done, this year, what I said I would: overcome my fear of facing a blank page day after day, acknowledging myself, in my… Acknowledging
- Strange, when one thinks of all the other boys, infinite experimental kisses, test tube infatuations, crushes, pseudo-loves. All through this physical separation, through the testing… Alike
- I hadn't, at the last moment, felt like washing off the two diagonal lines of dried blood that marked my cheeks. They seemed touching, and… Accord
- If Doctor Nolan asked me for the matches, I would say that I'd thought they were made of candy and had eaten them. Asked
- Today is the first of August. It is hot, steamy and wet. It is raining. I am tempted to write a poem. But I remember… Across
- I thought if only I had a keen, shapely bone structure to my face or could discuss politics shrewdly or was a famous writer Constantin… Bone
- Wear your heart on your skin in this life. Heart
- I collected men with interesting names. I already knew a Socrates. He was tall and ugly and intellectual and the son of some big Greek… Already Knew
- I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow. Beautiful
- Oh, something is there, waiting for me. Perhaps someday the revelation will burst in upon me and I will see the other side of this… Burst
- I think I am mad sometimes. Inspirational
- If you have no past or no future, which, after all, is all that the present is made of, why then you may as well… All
- Here I am, a bundle of past recollections and future dreams, knotted up in a reasonably attractive bundle of flesh. I remember what this flesh… Attractive
- I saw the years of my life spaced along a road in the form of telephone poles threaded together by wires. I counted one, two,… Along
- I am still so naïve; I know pretty much what I like and dislike; but please, don’t ask me who I am. A passionate, fragmentary… Ask
- And what is happy? It is a going always on. There is something better to be done than I have done, and spurred by the… Better
- Stars open among the lilies. Are you not blinded by such expressionless sirens? This is the silence of astounded souls. Among
- I am silver and exact.I have no preconceptions. Exact
- Living with him is like being told a perpetual story: his mind is the biggest, most imaginative I have ever met. I could live in… Biggest
- What I didn't say was that each time I picked up a German dictionary or a German book, the very sight of those dense, black,… Barbed