Quotes by
Sylvia Plath |
1932-1963 , American poet & writer
American poet and novelist whose works are preoccupied with alienation, death, and self-destruction. Plath is credited with advancing the genre of confessional poetry and is best known for her two published collections, “The Colossus” and “Other Poems and Ariel”.
Plath was clinically depressed for most of her adult life, which was treated multiple times with electroconvulsive therapy. She committed suicide in 1963.
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Quotations
| • | Why can’t I try on different lives, like dresses, to see which one fits me and is most becoming? 8 |
| • | I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me. 6 |
| • | The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. 6 |
| • | If they substituted the word 'Lust' for 'Love' in the popular songs it would come nearer the truth. 6 |
| • | If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed. 5 |
| • | What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age. 4 |
| • | So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough. 4 |
| • | Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams. And you weren't having any of those. 3 |
| • | I love my rejection slips. They show me I try. 3 |
| • | Is anyone anywhere happy? 3 |
| • | I don’t care about anyone, and the feeling is quite obviously mutual. 3 |
| • | How we need another soul to cling to. 3 |
| • | Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing. 3 |
| • | So many people are shut up tight inside themselves like boxes, yet they would open up, unfolding quite wonderfully, if only you were interested in them. 2 |
| • | There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room. 1 |
| • | I don’t know what it is like to not have deep emotions. Even when I feel nothing, I feel it completely. 1 |
| • | What a man is is an arrow into the future and what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from. 1 |
| • | Very few people do this any more. It’s too risky. First of all, it’s a hell of a responsibility to be yourself. It’s much easier to be somebody else or nobody at all. 1 |
| • | You are a dream; I hope I never meet you. 1 |
| • | I would catch sight of some flawless man off in the distance, but as soon as he moved closer I immediately saw he wouldn’t do at all. 1 |
| • | The trouble about jumping was that if you didn’t pick the right number of storeys, you might still be alive when you hit bottom. 1 |
| • | I wanted to be where nobody I knew could ever come. 1 |
| • | The floor seemed wonderfully solid. It was comforting to know I had fallen and could fall no farther. 1 |
| • | I love people. Everybody. I love them, I think, as a stamp collector loves his collection. Every story, every incident, every bit of conversation is raw material for me. 1 |
Quotes in Verse
| • | I talk to God but the sky is empty. 8 |
| • | I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again. 7 |
| • | Kiss me, and you will see how important I am. 7 |
| • | I lean to you, numb as a fossil. Tell me I'm here. 5 |
| • | I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am. 5 |
| • | I write only because There is a voice within me That will not be still. 4 |
| • | I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it. 4 |
| • | The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence. 3 |
| • | People or stars Regard me sadly, I disappoint them. 2 |
| • | If the moon smiled, she would resemble you. You leave the same impression Of something beautiful, but annihilating. 2 |
| • | I Am Vertical But I would rather be horizontal. I am not a tree with my root in the soil... It is more natural to me, lying down. Then the sky and I are in open conversation. 1 |
