Sylvia Quotes

30 quotes by 30 authors

What is light, if Sylvia be not seen? What is joy if Sylvia be not by? — William Shakespeare
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
In the country, I stopped being a person who, in the words of Sylvia Boorstein, startles easily. I grew calmer, but beneath that calm was… — Dani Shapiro
The doctor's name was Sylvia. I told her she'd have a problem with me because Sylvia was my mother's name. — Paul Lynde
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
Ian and Sylvia, who, when you got right down to it, were essentially country and western singers. I just recorded his Four Strong Winds. It's… — Dave Van Ronk
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
I'm hopefully touring with Colin Baker next year in Perfect Strangers. I have performed with Sylvia Simms in poetry and music evenings. I would love… — Louise Jameson
Sylvia Day delivers readers to a fantasy world as unique as it is erotic! Ms. Day is an up-and-coming talent in the world of erotic… — Toni Blake
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
I was having such a hard time when I made Sylvia. I gave everything I had for that role. It's one or two or three… — Gwyneth Paltrow
[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
Sylvia loved secrets and even if she didn't have any secrets she made sure that you thought she did. Amelia had no secrets, Amelia knew… — Kate Atkinson
Sylvia had given him a scalding lecture, the gist of it being that whatever a woman enjoyed wearing was feminine and anything she didn't enjoy… — Anne Bishop
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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