Sylvia Plath Quotes


"Widow. The word consumes itself."
- Sylvia Plath
(Related: Word)

"There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them."
- Sylvia Plath
(Related: Cure)

"Is there no way out of the mind?"
- Sylvia Plath
(Related: Mind)

"Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing."
- Sylvia Plath
(Related: Nothing)

"Kiss me and you will see how important I am."
- Sylvia Plath
(Related: Kiss, Will)

"Apparently, the most difficult feat for a Cambridge male is to accept a woman not merely as feeling, not merely as thinking, but as managing a complex, vital interweaving of both."
- Sylvia Plath
(Related: Feeling, Thinking, Woman)

"But life is long. And it is the long run that balances the short flare of interest and passion."
- Sylvia Plath
(Related: Life, Interest, Passion)

"I talk to God but the sky is empty."
- Sylvia Plath
(Related: God, Sky, Talk)

"Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing."
- Sylvia Plath
(Related: Nothing, Writing)

"I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am."
- Sylvia Plath
(Related: Heart, Deep, Old)

"Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I've a call."
- Sylvia Plath
(Related: Art, Dying, Hell)

"I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again."
- Sylvia Plath
(Related: Eyes, World)

"The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it."
- Sylvia Plath
(Related: Poetry, Blood)

"I am too pure for you or anyone."
- Sylvia Plath
"How frail the human heart must be - a mirrored pool of thought."
- Sylvia Plath
(Related: Thought, Heart)

"If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days."
- Sylvia Plath
(Related: Time, Flying, Hell, Rest)