Sylvia Plath quotes

Kiss me, and you will see how important I am. (Sylvia Plath)
Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing. View quote
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If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed. View quote
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I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart: I am, I am, I am. View quote
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There must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them. View quote
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If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days. View quote
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I talk to God but the sky is empty. View quote
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Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing. View quote
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Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children. View quote
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I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my lids and all is born again. View quote
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I never feel so much myself as when I'm in a hot bath. (Sylvia Plath)
If I didn't think, I'd be much happier; if I didn't have any sex organs, I wouldn't waver on the brink of nervous emotion and tears all the time. View quote
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Is there no way out of the mind? View quote
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How frail the human heart must be - a mirrored pool of thought. View quote
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The blood jet is poetry, There is no stopping it. View quote
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I saw myself sitting in the crotch of this fig tree, starving to death, just because I couldn't make up my mind which of the figs I would choose. I wanted each and every one of them, but choosing one meant losing all the rest, and, as I sat there, unable to decide, the figs began to wrinkle and go black, and, one by one, they plopped to the ground at my feet. View quote
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With me, the present is forever, and forever is always shifting, flowing, melting. This second is life. And when it is gone it is dead. But you can't start over with each new second. You have to judge by what is dead. It's like quicksand... hopeless from the start. View quote
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Don't talk to me about the world needing cheerful stuff! What the person out of Belsen - physical or psychological - wants is nobody saying the birdies still go tweet-tweet, but the full knowledge that somebody else has been there and knows the worst, just what it is like. View quote
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How did I know that someday - at college, in Europe, somewhere, anywhere - the bell jar, with its stifling distortions, wouldn't descend again? View quote
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I felt myself melting into the shadows like the negative of a person I'd never seen before in my life. View quote
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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 then they disappeared. You could never catch one. (Sylvia Plath)
Ironically, Henry James' biography comforts me & I long to make known to him his posthumous reputation - he wrote, in pain, gave all his life (which is more than I could think of doing - I have Ted, will have children - but few friends) & the critics insulted & mocked him, readers didn't read him. View quote
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What a man is is an arrow into the future and what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from. View quote
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What did my fingers do before they held him? What did my heart do, with its love? View quote
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I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket. View quote
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