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One Quotes by Sylvia Plath
- One night she hid the pink cotton scarf from her raincoat in the pillowcase when the nurse came around to lock up her drawers and…
- Tonight I am ugly. I have lost all faith in my ability to attract males, and in the female animal that is a rather pathetic…
- I shall never get out of this! There are two of me now: This new absolutely white person and the old yellow one, And the…
- You have to be able to make a real creative life for Yourself, before you can expect anyone Else to provide one ready-made for you.
- It won't happen yet, Ellen mused, mashing cooked carrots for Jill's lunch. Breakups seldom do. It will unfold slowly, one little tell-tale symptom after another…
- I have to live my life, and it is the only one I’ll ever have.
- The one thing I was good at was winning scholarships and prizes, and that era was coming to an end.
- If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell.
- 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…
- That’s one of the reasons I never wanted to get married. The last thing I wanted was infinite security and to be the place an…
- I want to write because I have the urge to excel in one medium of translation and expression of life. I can't be satisfied with…
- I feel, am mad as any writer must in one way be; why not make it real? I am too close to the bourgeois society…
- I am sure there are things that can't be cured by a good bath but I can't think of one.
- Why honey, don't you want to get dressed?" My mother took care never to tell me to do anything. She would only reason with me…
- I saw the days of the year stretching ahead like a series of bright, white boxes, and separating one box from another was sleep, like…
- You are the one. Solid the spaces lean on, envious. You are the baby in the barn.
- Piece by piece, I fed my wardrobe to the night wind, and flutteringly, like a loved one’s ashes, the gray scraps were ferried off, to…
- The sky leans on me, me, the one upright among all horizontals.
- Yes, I was infatuated with you: I am still. No one has ever heightened such a keen capacity of physical sensation in me. I cut…
- I began to see why woman-haters could make such fools of women. Woman-haters were like gods: invulnerable and chock full of power. They descended, and…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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,…
- Now I know what loneliness is, I think. Momentary loneliness, anyway. It comes from a vague core of the self - - like a disease…
- It seemed silly to wash one day when I would only have to wash again the next. It made me tired just to think of…
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