All Sylvia Plath Quotes
- If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. Exclusive
- Is to throw together events from my own life, fictionalizing to add color—it’s a pot boiler really, but I think it will show how isolated… Add
- Nothing is real except the present, and already, I feel the weight of centuries smothering me. Some girl a hundred years ago once lived as… Ago
- If I have a dry spell ... I wait and live harder, eyes, ears, and heart open, and when the productive time comes, it is… Dry
- There is a certain clinical satisfaction in seeing just how bad things can get. Bad
- Cheers for spring; for life; for a growing soul. Cheer
- The lyric abstrusities of Auden ring mystically down the circular canals of my ear and it begins to look like snow. The good gray conservative… All
- Love set you going like a fat gold watch. The midwife slapped your footsoles, and your bald cry Took its place among the elements. Among
- What is so real as the cry of a child? Child
- But when it came right down to it, the skin of my wrist looked so white and defenseless that I couldn't do it. Came
- The journey over the bridge had unnerved me. The river water passed me by like an untouched drink. I suspected that even if my mother… Been
- As from a star I saw, coldly and soberly, the separateness of everything. I felt the wall of my skin; I am I. That stone… Beautiful
- When I fell out of the light, I entered The stomach of indifference, the wordless cupboard. Cupboard
- Outcast on a cold star, unable to feel anything but an awful helpless numbness. I look down into the warm, earthy world. Into a nest… All
- What I want back is what I was Before the bed, before the knife, Before the brooch-pin and the salve Fixed me in this parenthesis;… Bed
- For me, poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose. Evasion
- I am afraid of getting married. Spare me from cooking three meals a dayspare me from the relentless cage of routine and rote. Afraid
- I could never be a complete scholar or a complete housewife ora completewriter: Imustcombinea little of all, and thereby be imperfect in all. All
- Winter is for women The woman still at her knitting, At the cradle of Spanish walnut, Her body a bulb in the cold and too… Body
- Ironically, Henry James' biography comforts me & I long to make known to him his posthumous reputation he wrote, in pain, gave all his life… All
- Don't talk to me about the world needing cheerful stuff! What the person out of Belsen physical or psychological wants is nobody saying the birdies… Been
- The abstract kills, the concrete saves. Abstract
- Kiss me and you will see how important I am. Classic
- And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The… Classic
- Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing. Classic