Source: the bell jar
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Famous Sylvia Plath Quotes
Source: Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams
“When I fell out of the light, I entered The stomach of indifference, the wordless cupboard.”
Source: The Colossus
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, 1950-1962
Source: The Colossus
“For me, poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose.”
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Source: Letters home: correspondence, 1950-1963
“The abstract kills, the concrete saves.”
Source: The Journals of Sylvia Plath
“Opinions are like orgasms...mine matters most and I really don't care if you have one.”
“The claw of the magnolia, drunk on its own scents, asks nothing of life.”
Source: Ariel
“Please, I want so badly for the good things to happen.”
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Source: the bell jar
“If the body is a temple, then tattoos are its stained glass windows.”
Source: Letters home: correspondence, 1950-1963
“I feel terribly vulnerable and 'not-myself' when I'm not writing.”
Source: Letters Home
“Every day one has to earn the name of 'writer' over again, with much wrestling.”
Source: Letters Home
Source: Letters Home
“I like people, but to learn about one individual always appeals to me more than anything.”
Source: Letters Home
Source: Letters Home
Source: Letters home: correspondence, 1950-1963
“I need not to be more with others, but to be more & more deeply, richly alone. Recreating worlds.”
Source: The Journals of Sylvia Plath
“It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me.”
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, 1950-1962
“I felt wise and cynical as all hell.”
Source: the bell jar
“If I rest, if I think inward, I go mad.”
Source: The Journals of Sylvia Plath
Source: The Journals of Sylvia Plath
“I do not know who I am tonight.”
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“God, how I ricochet between certainties and doubts.”
Source: The Journals of Sylvia Plath
“I am so hungry for a big smashing creative burgeoning burdened love.”
Source: The Journals of Sylvia Plath
“Dancing is the normal prelude to intercourse.”
Source: The Journals of Sylvia Plath
“Can you understand? Someone, somewhere, can you understand me a little, love me a little?”
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Source: The Journals of Sylvia Plath
“I can't be satisfied with the colossal job of merely living.”
Source: The Journals of Sylvia Plath
“Love life day by day, color by color, touch by touch.”
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Source: The Journals of Sylvia Plath
Source: The Journals of Sylvia Plath
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, 1950-1962
“I deserve that, don't I, some sort of blazing love that I can live with.”
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“Every day is precious and I feel infinitely sad at this time melting away from me.”
“You've only got so long to live.”
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, 1950-1962
“O heart, such disorganization!”
Source: Selected Poems of Sylvia Plath
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath