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Poet

American poet, novelist, and playwright. Her works are known for their profound emotion and unique style, and she is considered one of the most important female writers of the 20th century.

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Famous Sylvia Plath Quotes

“The moon, too, abases her subjects, but in the daytime she is ridiculous. Your dissatisfactions, on the other hand, arrive through the mailslot with loving regularity, white and blank, expansive as carbon monoxide. No day is safe from news of you, walking about in Africa maybe, but thinking of me.”

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Book:Ariel

Source: Ariel

“If I didn’t think, I’d be much happier.”

Ifs Thinking Happiness Happy Novelists Being Happy Thinking Too Much

Book:The Journals of Sylvia Plath

Source: The Journals of Sylvia Plath

“I am what I feel and think and do.”

Thinking Feels

Book:The Journals of Sylvia Plath

Source: The Journals of Sylvia Plath

“I have this demon who wants me to run away screaming if I am going to be flawed, fallible. It wants me to think I'm so good I must be perfect. Or nothing. I am, on the contrary, something: a being who gets tired, has shyness to fight, has more trouble than most facing people easily.”

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Book:The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“Frustrated? Yes. Why? Because it is impossible for me to be God — or the universal woman-and-man — or anything much. I am what I feel and think and do. I want to express my being as fully as I can because I somewhere picked up the idea that I could justify my being alive that way.”

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Book:The Journals of Sylvia Plath

Source: The Journals of Sylvia Plath

“Is to throw together events from my own life, fictionalizing to add color—it’s a pot boiler really, but I think it will show how isolated a person feels when he is suffering a breakdown . . . I’ve tried to picture my world and the people in it as seen through the distorting lens of a bell jar.”

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Book:the bell jar

Source: the bell jar

About the Author

Born: October 27, 1932
Died: February 11, 1963
Known for: Poet
Quotes: 812

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