Book detail: The Journals of Sylvia Plath is presented as a focused source page for quotations connected with this book, collection, transcript, or source record.
This book includes Plath's intimate reflections, poetry, and prose, offering a glimpse into her thoughts and experiences throughout her life.
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“The abstract kills, the concrete saves.”
“I need not to be more with others, but to be more & more deeply, richly alone. Recreating worlds.”
“If I rest, if I think inward, I go mad.”
“God, how I ricochet between certainties and doubts.”
“I am so hungry for a big smashing creative burgeoning burdened love.”
“Dancing is the normal prelude to intercourse.”
“I can't be satisfied with the colossal job of merely living.”
“I want to become acutely aware of all I've taken for granted.”
“I want to be silverly beautiful.”
“The artist's life nourishes itself on the particular, the concrete.”
“Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams.”
“Happy! That is indefinable as far as states of being go.”
“England offers new comforts. I could write a novel there.”
“I must be lean & write & make worlds beside this to live in.”
“How we need another soul to cling to.”
“I don’t care about anyone, and the feeling is quite obviously mutual.”
“I am dead to them, even though I once flowered.”
“I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night.”
“What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.”
“But they know. They all know. And what am I against so many…?”