Sylvia Plath Best Quotes

Sylvia Plath Best Quotes & Sayings

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August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time. — Sylvia Plath

Whenever I thought about men and men, and women and women, I could never really imagine what they would actually be doing. — Sylvia Plath

I reckon a good poem lasts a whole lot longer than a hundred of those people put together. — Sylvia Plath

People or stars
Regard me sadly, I disappoint them.
From the poem "Sheep in Fog", 2 December 1962, 28 January 1963 — Sylvia Plath

Whose is that long white box in the grove, what have they accomplished, why am I cold. — Sylvia Plath

It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere. — Sylvia Plath

The abstract kills, the concrete saves. — Sylvia Plath

The tulips are too red ... they hurt me. — Sylvia Plath

Joan was the beaming double of my old best self, specially designed to follow
and torment me. — Sylvia Plath

I love my rejection slips. They show me I try. — Sylvia Plath

Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children. — Sylvia Plath

Almost, I think, the unreasoning, bestial purity was best. — Sylvia Plath

What ceremony of words can patch the havoc? — Sylvia Plath

Why can't I try on different lives, like dresses, to see which fits best and is more becoming? — Sylvia Plath

The frost makes a flower,
the dew makes a star. — Sylvia Plath

Please don't expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand. — Sylvia Plath

Over coffee and orange juice the embryonic suicide brightens visibly. — Sylvia Plath

Poetry at its best can do you a lot of harm. — Sylvia Plath

As I paddled on, mt heartbeat boomed like a motor in my ears. I am I am I am. — Sylvia Plath

It never occurred to me to say no. — Sylvia Plath

They mistake their star, these papery godfolk. — Sylvia Plath

I have never found anybody who could stand to accept the daily demonstrative love I feel in me, and give back as good as I give. — Sylvia Plath

I knew you'd decide to be all right again. — Sylvia Plath

I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery - air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, This is what it is to be happy. — Sylvia Plath

Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing. — Sylvia Plath

There ought, I thought, to be a ritual for being born twice - patched, retreaded and approved for the road. — Sylvia Plath

The thought that I might kill myself formed in my mind coolly as a tree or a flower. — Sylvia Plath

WIDOW. The word consumes itself, said Sylvia Plath, who consumed herself. — Lauren Groff

TB is like living with a bomb in your lungs. You just lie around very quietly hoping it won't go off — Sylvia Plath

She. Silent, fawn-eyed. Clever. — Sylvia Plath

I think writers are the most narcissistic people. Well, I musn't say this, I like many of them, a great many of my friends are writers. — Sylvia Plath

I self-paralyze myself & wonder what I've got in my head. — Sylvia Plath

...Life happens so hard and fast I sometimes wonder who is me... — Sylvia Plath

Slowly, slowly, catch the monkey. — Sylvia Plath

You were doing fine," a familiar voice informed my ear, "until that man stepped into your path. — Sylvia Plath

I went to the bronze boy whom I love, partly because no one really cares for him — Sylvia Plath

I am inhabited by a cry.
Nightly it flaps out
Looking, with its hooks, for something to love. — Sylvia Plath

You inherit white heather, a bee's wing,
Two suicides, the family wolves,
Hours of blankness. — Sylvia Plath

There is a certain clinical satisfaction in seeing just how bad things can get. — Sylvia Plath

I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love. — Sylvia Plath