Poetry Quote by Sylvia Plath

“It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York.”

— Sylvia Plath

I love life. But it is hard and I have so much, so very much to learn.

— Sylvia Plath

“I couldn't stand the idea of a woman having to have a single pure life and a man being able to have a double…

— Sylvia Plath

I saw the gooseflesh on my skin. I did not know what made it. I was not cold. Had a ghost passed over? No,…

— Sylvia Plath

I have to live my life, and it is the only one I’ll ever have.

— Sylvia Plath

“The city had faded my tan, though. I looked yellow as a Chinaman. Ordinarily, I would have been nervous about my dress and my…

— Sylvia Plath

Joy:show joy & enjoy: then others will be joyful.

— Sylvia Plath

A million years of evolution, Eric said bitterly, and what are we? Animals.

— Sylvia Plath

“I have stitched life into me like a rare organ --from "Three Women: A Poem for Three Voices", written 1962”

— Sylvia Plath

It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me.

— Sylvia Plath