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Famous Sylvia Plath Quotes
“I smile, now, thinking: we all like to think we are important enough to need psychiatrists”
“Good to know that if I ever need attention all I have to do is die.”
“Your body Hurts me as the world hurts God”
“You are a dream; I hope I never meet you.”
“To annihilate the world by annihilation of oneself is the deluded height of desperate egoism.”
“The slime of all my yesterdays rots in the hollow of my skull.”
“I laid my face to the smooth face of the marble and howled my loss into the cold salt rain.”
“Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it”
“I wondered what I thought I was burying.”
“August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.”
“I like people too much or not at all.”
“Everything people did seemed so silly, because they only died in the end.”
“For the few little successes I may seem to have, there are acres of misgivings and self-doubt.”
“Why can’t I try on different lives, like dresses, to see which fits best and is more becoming?”
“The day I went into physics class it was death.”
“Spiderlike, I spin mirrors, Loyal to my image.”
“It never occurred to me to say no.”
“I am myself. That is not enough.”
“Let me sit in a flowerpot, The spiders won't notice. My heart is a stopped geranium.”
“I am solitary as grass. What is it I miss? Shall I ever find it, whatever it is?”
“Aloneness and selfness are too important to betray for company.”
“I cut you out because I couldn't stand being a passing fancy.”
“I, to you, am lost in the gorgeous errors of flesh.”
“If you dissect a bird / to diagram the tongue, / you'll cut the chord / articulating song.”
“There is more than one good way to drown.”
“we walk the plank with strangers.”
“I am not cruel, only truthful.”