Plath Quotes
16 quotes by 16 authors
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Our suicidal poets (Plath, Berryman, Lowell, Jarrell, et al.) spent too much of their lives inside rooms and classrooms when they should have been trudging…
— Edward Abbey
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People who think that Sylvia Plath was a poor, sensitive poet are not getting that she had great amounts of ambition and anger that moved…
— Elizabeth Wurtzel
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Beachy Head brims with electrical currents flying backwards and forwards, with the force of poems that have been well fought out and felt. I hear…
— Dorothea Lasky
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Like Sylvia Plath, Natalie Jeanne Champagne invites you so close to the pain and agony of her life of mental illness and addiction, which leaves…
— Andy Behrman
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Sylvia Plath was just a month and a half older than I, and when she committed suicide I was only 30 - and very shocked…
— Anne Stevenson
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I love Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. I also love more cerebral poets like H.D. and Emily Dickinson. My parents subscribed to a monthly poetry…
— Francesca Lia Block
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Augustine, Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath are confessional writers and all three make me sick. I have nothing in common with them.
— Joni Mitchell
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Look, if you ask a child, 'Would you rather have a fulfilled mother or a stay-at-home Sylvia Plath,' they'll pick Sylvia Plath every time. But…
— Ayelet Waldman
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It's rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to describe them as…
— Stephen Fry
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You marvel at the economy and this choice of words. How many ways can you describe the sky and the moon? After Sylvia Plath, what…
— Toni Morrison
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[Short Talk on Sylvia Plath] Did you see her mother on television? She said plain, burned things. She said I thought it an excellent poem…
— Anne Carson
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But you have to understand, mental illness is like cholesterol. There is is good kind and the bad. Without the good kind- less flavor to…
— Tim Dorsey
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For throughout history, you can read the stories of women who - against all the odds - got being a woman right, but ended up…
— Caitlin Moran
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It would be amazing to play Sylvia Plath. She was so dark, and what came out of her writing was troubled and fierce. The dimensions,…
— Evangeline Lilly
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I am Harriet Rosenstein. The line you and many other sites choose to quote is part of an ironic passage in a review I wrote…
— Harriet Rosenstein
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Back pushed against the wall. Hearts shattered like broken glass. The rain's dropping harder than ever like the mood(s) of Sylvia Plath.
— Needa Muy
Who Wrote These Plath Quotes
16 authors contributed a total of 16 Plath Quotes as follows: