All Sylvia Plath Quotes
- I had hoped, at my departure, I would feel sure and knowledgeable about everything that lay ahead -- after all, I had been "analyzed." Instead,… Ahead
- This is the light of the mind, cold and planetary. The trees of the mind are black. The light is blue. Black
- Why can’t I try on different lives, like dresses, to see which fits best and is more becoming? Becoming
- The day I went into physics class it was death. Class
- Spiderlike, I spin mirrors, Loyal to my image. Image
- I dreamed that you bewitched me into bed And sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane. (I think I made you up inside my head.) Bed
- It never occurred to me to say no. Funny
- I am myself. That is not enough. Chaos
- I wish you’d find the exit out of my head. D Find
- Clouds pass and disperse. Are those the faces of love, those pale irretrievables? Is it for such I agitate my heart? Agitate
- Perhaps you considered yourself an oracle, Mouthpiece of the dead, or of some god or other. Thirty years now I have labored To dredge the… Considered
- Let me sit in a flowerpot, The spiders won't notice. My heart is a stopped geranium. Flowerpot
- I am solitary as grass. What is it I miss? Shall I ever find it, whatever it is? Ever Find
- You walked in, laughing, tears welling confused, mingling in your throat. How can you be so many women to so many people, oh you strange… Confused
- It is as if my life were magically run by two electric currents: joyous positive and despairing negative--which ever is running at the moment dominates… Currents
- Aloneness and selfness are too important to betray for company. Aloneness
- I cut you out because I couldn't stand being a passing fancy. Cut
- I am terrified by this dark thing That sleeps in me; All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity. All
- I, to you, am lost in the gorgeous errors of flesh. Errors
- If you dissect a bird / to diagram the tongue, / you'll cut the chord / articulating song. Articulating
- There is more than one good way to drown. Drown
- we walk the plank with strangers. Inspirational
- I am not cruel, only truthful. Cruel
- The moon is no door. It is a face in its own right, White as a knuckle and terribly upset. It drags the sea after… Complete
- I need more than anything right now what is, of course, most impossible, someone to love me, to be with me at night when I… Anything Right