Sylvia Plath quotes - page 9

I smile, now, thinking: we all like to think we are important enough to need psychiatrists. (Sylvia Plath)
What a man wants is a mate and what a woman wants is infinite security,' and, ‘What a man is is an arrow into the future and a what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from. View quote
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August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time. View quote
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I used to pray to recover you. View quote
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All the heat and fear had purged itself. I felt surprisingly at peace. The bell jar hung suspended a few feet above my head. I was open to the circulating air. View quote
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You smile. No, it is not fatal. View quote
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Well, I know now. I know a little more how much a simple thing like a snowfall can mean to a person. View quote
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I had been alone more than I could have been had I gone by myself. View quote
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And I a smiling woman. I am only thirty. And like the cat I have nine times to die. View quote
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I wonder about all the roads not taken and am moved to quote Frost... but won't. It is sad to be able only to mouth other poets. I want someone to mouth me. View quote
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And I am aware of my heart: it opens and closes Its bowl of red blooms out of sheer love of me. (Sylvia Plath)
To look at her, you might not guess that inside she is laughing and crying, at her own stupidities and luckiness, and at the strange enigmatic ways of the world which she will spend lifetime trying to learn and understand. View quote
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If you pluck out my heart To find what makes it move, You'll halt the clock That syncopates our love. View quote
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Love is the bone and sinew of my curse. View quote
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I woke to the sound of rain. View quote
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I felt the first man I slept with must be intelligent, so I could respect him. View quote
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And what is happy? It is a going always on. There is something better to be done than I have done, and spurred by the fair delusion of progress, I will seek to progress, to whip myself on, to more and more- to learning. Always. View quote
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I have done, this year, what I said I would: overcome my fear of facing a blank page day after day, acknowledging myself, in my deepest emotions, a writer, come what may. View quote
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I hurl my heart to halt his pace. View quote
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What a man wants is a mate and what a woman wants is infinite security. View quote
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Piece by piece, I fed my wardrobe to the night wind, and flutteringly, like a loved one's ashes, the gray scraps were ferried off, to settle here, there, exactly where I would never know, in the dark heart of New York. (Sylvia Plath)
The box is only temporary. View quote
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And I, love, am a pathological liar. View quote
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It never occurred to me to say no. View quote
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The bell jar hung, suspended, a few feet above my head. I was open to the circulating air. View quote
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