Quotes about Plath

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So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough. — Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Life was not to be sitting in hot amorphic leisure in my backyard idly writing or not writing, as the spirit moved me. I — Sylvia Plath
I have stitched life into me like a rare organ — Sylvia Plath
Even amongst fierce flames/ The golden lotus can be planted. — Bhagavid-Gita
The thought that I might kill myself formed in my mind coolly as a tree or a flower. — Sylvia Plath
He could not stand. It was notThat he could not thrive, he was bornWith everything but the will –That can be deformed, j — Ted Hughes
Not easy to state the change you made.If I'm alive now, I was dead,Though, like a stone, unbothered by it. — Sylvia Plath, The Collected Poems
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead — I lift my eyes and all is born again.
Writing, then, was a substitute for myself: if you don't love me, love my writing & love me for my writing. It is also m — Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
[Short Talk on Sylvia Plath] Did you see her mother on television? She said plain, burned things. She said I thought it — Anne Carson
Maybe if I could slip into Sylvia's mind, sort out the spices in her rack, alphabetize them and dust them off. Maybe the — Kelli Russell Agodon
Some things are hard to write about. After something happens to you, you go to write it down, and either you over dramat — Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Feel oddly barren. My sickness is when words draw in their horns and the physical world refuses to be ordered, recreated — Sylvia Plath
We have conversations with each other most nights - Sylvia Plath and me! — Avijeet Das
Sylvia Plath and I met a long time ago. A really long time ago. Was it a summer day? No! It was a wintry November mornin — Avijeet Das
We have conversations most nights, Sylvia Plath and me. On these cold wintry nights with our coffee mugs in hand, we tal — Avijeet Das
Wars, wars, wars': reading up on the region I came across one moment when quintessential Englishness had in fact interse — Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22: A Memoir
I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart.” I struggle to think of any line of thinking more linked — Alana Massey, All the Lives I Want: Essays About My Best Friends Who Happen to Be Famous Strangers
Sylvia was an early literary manifestation of a young woman who takes endless selfies and posts them with vicious captio — Alana Massey, All the Lives I Want: Essays About My Best Friends Who Happen to Be Famous Strangers
I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me. — Sylvia Plath, The Collected Poems