Sylvia-plath Quotes

How we need that security. How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To re...

The thought that I might kill myself formed in my mind coolly as a tree or a flower.

I have stitched life into me like a rare organ

Life was not to be sitting in hot amorphic leisure in my backyard idly writing or not writing, as th...

I could feel the tears brimming and sloshing in me like water in a glass that is unsteady and too fu...

I buried my head under the darkness of the pillow and pretended it was night. I couldn't see the poi...

I don't know how long I kept at it...I felt reasonably safe, streched out on the floor, and lay quit...

My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off ...

When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn't know.

Not easy to state the change you made.If I'm alive now, I was dead,Though, like a stone, unbothered ...

I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.

I need more than anything right now what is, of course, most impossible, someone to love me, to be w...

Writing, then, was a substitute for myself: if you don't love me, love my writing & love me for my w...

Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out o...

if a man chooses to be promiscuous, he may still turn up his nose at promiscuity. He may still deman...

There is no better way to know us Than as two wolves, come separately to a wood.

The pity is not that there is a myth of Sylvia Plath but that the myth is not simply that of an enor...

[Sylvia Plath] was now far along a peculiarly solitary road on which not many would risk following h...

[Short Talk on Sylvia Plath] Did you see her mother on television? She said plain, burned things. Sh...

Wars, wars, wars': reading up on the region I came across one moment when quintessential Englishness...