Source: Collected Poems
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Famous Sylvia Plath Quotes
Source: Ariel
“I want to become acutely aware of all I've taken for granted.”
Source: The Journals of Sylvia Plath
Source: The Journals of Sylvia Plath
“I want to be silverly beautiful.”
Source: The Journals of Sylvia Plath
Source: the bell jar
“The artist's life nourishes itself on the particular, the concrete.”
Source: The Journals of Sylvia Plath
“The one man in the room who was as big as his poems, huge, with hulk and dynamic chunks of words.”
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Source: Letters home: correspondence, 1950-1963
“In spite of everything, I still have my good old sense of humor.”
Source: Letters Home
Source: Letters home: correspondence, 1950-1963
“I am I-I am powerful, but to what extent? I am I.”
Source: Letters Home
Source: Letters Home
“Death may whiten in sun or out of it.”
Source: The Colossus: and Other Poems
“Over coffee and orange juice the embryonic suicide brightens visibly.”
Source: The Journals of Sylvia Plath
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams.”
Source: The Journals of Sylvia Plath
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Source: The Journals of Sylvia Plath
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Source: The Journals of Sylvia Plath
Source: The Journals of Sylvia Plath
Source: The Journals of Sylvia Plath
“I do not love; I do not love anybody except myself. That is a rather shocking thing to admit.”
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“Happy! That is indefinable as far as states of being go.”
Source: The Journals of Sylvia Plath
“I want to kill myself, to escape from responsiblity, to crawl abjectly back into the womb.”
“I love life. But it is hard and I have so much, so very much to learn.”
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“I felt like a racehorse in a world without racetracks.”
Source: the bell jar
“Hour by hour, day by day, life becomes possible.”
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Source: The Journals of Sylvia Plath
“England offers new comforts. I could write a novel there.”
Source: The Journals of Sylvia Plath
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Source: The Journals of Sylvia Plath
“Jealousy can open the blood, it can make black roses.”
Source: Ariel: The Restored Edition
“Like a cat I have nine times to die.”
Source: Poemas
Source: Winter Trees
“Even amidst fierce flames the golden lotus can be planted.”