Plath Quotes

16 quotes by 16 authors

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
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
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
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
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
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
Augustine, Anne Sexton and Sylvia Plath are confessional writers and all three make me sick. I have nothing in common with them. — Joni Mitchell
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
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
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
[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
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
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
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
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
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: