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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
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
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
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
Poetry at its best can do you a lot of harm.
— 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
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
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 am inhabited by a cry.
Nightly it flaps out
Looking, with its hooks, for something to love. — Sylvia Plath
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
Two suicides, the family wolves,
Hours of blankness. — Sylvia Plath