Source: Sylvia Plath Poems Chosen by Carol Ann Duffy
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“I was my own woman. The next step was to find the proper sort of man.”
Source: the bell jar
Source: Letters Home
“I am inhabited by a cry. Nightly it flaps out Looking, with its hooks, for something to love.”
Source: Ariel: The Restored Edition
Source: Ariel: The Restored Edition
“I like you, but not too much. I don’t want to like anybody too much.”
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Source: the bell jar
Source: the bell jar
Source: the bell jar
Source: the bell jar
“When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn't know.”
Source: the bell jar
Source: the bell jar
“I wanted to be where nobody I knew could ever come.”
Source: the bell jar
“A skeptic, I would ask for consistency first of all.”
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“How many different deaths I can die?”
Source: The Journals of Sylvia Plath
“One thing, I try to be honest. And what is revealed is often rather hideously unflattering.”
Source: The Journals of Sylvia Plath
“I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.”
Source: The Journals of Sylvia Plath
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“If only I knew what I wanted I could try to see about getting it.”
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“Tomorrow is another day toward death.”
Source: The Journals of Sylvia Plath
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“And I identify too closely with my reading, with my writing.”
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“I suppose if I gave myself the chance I could be an alcoholic.”
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Source: The Journals of Sylvia Plath
“I suppose I'll always be over-vulnerable, slightly paranoid.”
Source: The Journals of Sylvia Plath
“I get into a rut, unable to yank my mind out of it.”
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“My life is a discipline, a prison: I live for my own work, without which I am nothing.”
Source: The Journals of Sylvia Plath
“I have been holding a dialogue with myself and girding myself to stand fast without running.”
Source: The Journals of Sylvia Plath
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“I am disabused of all faith, and see too clearly.”
Source: The Journals of Sylvia Plath
“It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.”
Source: The Journals of Sylvia Plath
“I have a violence in me that is hot as death-blood.”
Source: The Journals of Sylvia Plath
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, 1950-1962
“My worst habit is my fear & my destructive rationalizing.”
Source: The Journals of Sylvia Plath
“I must not be selfless: develop a sense of self. A solidness that can't be attacked.”
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“Talking about my fears to others feeds it.”
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Source: The Journals of Sylvia Plath
“That afternoon my mother had brought me the roses. "Save them for my funeral," I'd said.”
Source: the bell jar
“What is my life for and what am I going to do with it? I don't know and I'm afraid.”
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Source: the bell jar
Source: the bell jar
Source: the bell jar
Source: the bell jar
“A million years of evolution, Eric said bitterly, and what are we? Animals.”
Source: the bell jar