Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath

"The tongues of hell are dull."
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"The tongues of hell are dull."
Sylvia Plath
"Sometimes I feel like I’m not solid. I’m hollow. There’s nothing behind my eyes. I’m a negative of a person. All I want is blackness, blackness and silence."
Sylvia Plath
"All I want is blackness. Blackness and silence."
Sylvia Plath
"Fixed stars govern a life"
Sylvia Plath
"I think writers are the most narcissistic people. Well, I musn't say this, I like many of them, a great many of my friends are writers."
Sylvia Plath
"I have done, this year, what I said I would: overcome my fear of facing a blank page day after day, acknowledging myself, in my deepest emotions, a writer, come what may."
Sylvia Plath
"How we need that security. How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this. I need someone to pour myself into."
Sylvia Plath
"Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing."
Sylvia Plath
"Stupid girl. You will never win anyone through pity. You must create the right kind of dream, the sober, adult kind of magic: illusion born from disillusion."
Sylvia Plath
"You must create the right kind of dream, the sober, adult kind of magic: illusion born from disillusion."
Sylvia Plath
"What I hate is the thought of being under a man's thumb," I had told Doctor Nolan. "A man doesn't have a worry in the world, while I've got a baby hanging over my head like a big stick, to keep me in line."
Sylvia Plath
"Usually after a good puke you feel better right away. We hugged each other and then said good-bye and went off to opposite ends of the hall to lie down in our own rooms. There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends."
Sylvia Plath
"“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”"
Sylvia Plath The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
"Unless you can be yourself, you won't stay with anyone for long."
Sylvia Plath
"“I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, This is what it is to be happy.”"
Sylvia Plath The Bell Jar
"“I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.”"
Sylvia Plath The Bell Jar
"“I talk to God but the sky is empty.”"
Sylvia Plath
"I could feel the tears brimming and sloshing in me like water in a glass that is unsteady and too full."
Sylvia Plath
"Poppies in July Little poppies, little hell flames,Do you do no harm?You flicker. I cannot touch you. I put my hands among the flames. Nothing burns. And it exhausts me to watch you Flickering like that, wrinkly and clear red, like the skin of a mouth. A mouth just bloodied. Little bloody skirts!There are fumes that I cannot touch. Where are your opiates, your nauseous capsules?If I could bleed, or sleep!If my mouth could marry a hurt like that!Or your liquors seep to me, in this glass capsule,Dulling and stilling. But colorless. Colorless."
Sylvia Plath
"I am helpless as the sea at the end of her string. I am restless. Restless and useless. I, too, create corpses."
Sylvia Plath
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