Quotes by Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath

American poet

Alive from: 1932-1963

Category: Poets (Contemporary)

Quotes 1 till 15 of 16.

• Sylvia Plath

  

  - +

   0
  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

  

  - +

   0
  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

  

  - +

   0
  How frail the human heart must be - a mirrored pool of thought...

• Sylvia Plath

  

  - +

   0
  I am a writer... I am a genius of a writer; I have it in me. I am writing the best poems of my life; they will make my name.
  

• Sylvia Plath

  

  - +

   0
  I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad.
  

• Sylvia Plath

  

  - +

   0
  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.
  

• Sylvia Plath

  

  - +

   0
  I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.
  

• Sylvia Plath

  

  - +

   0
  I think my poems immediately come out of the sensuous and emotional experiences I have.
  

• Sylvia Plath

  

  - +

   0
  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

  

  - +

   0
  If you expect nothing from anybody, you're never disappointed.
  

• Sylvia Plath

  

  - +

   0
  Is there no way out of the mind?

• Sylvia Plath

  

  - +

   0
  Kiss me and you will see how important I am.
  

• Sylvia Plath

  

  - +

   0
  Poetry at its best can do you a lot of harm.
  

• Sylvia Plath

  

  - +

   0
  The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it.

• Sylvia Plath

  

  - +

   0
  What I want back is what I was.