Sylvia Plath quotes - page 10

To learn and think; to think and live; to live and learn: this always, with new insight, new understanding, and new love. (Sylvia Plath)

Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it.

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I hate handing over money to people for doing what I could just as easily do myself, it makes me nervous.

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Compared with me, a tree is immortal.

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The night sky is only a sort of carbon paper, Blueblack, with the much-poked periods of stars Letting in the light, peephole after peephole--- A bonewhite light, like death, behind all things.

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You cannot regard your own life with objective curiosity all the time...

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The truth comes to me. The truth loves me.

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I am learning peacefulness, lying by myself quietly, as the light lies on these white walls, this bed, these hands. I am nobody; I have nothing to do with explosions.

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The sun gives you ulcers, the wind gives you T. B. Once you were beautiful.

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I fancied you'd return the way you said, But I grow old and I forget your name. --From the poem "Mad Girl's Love Song.

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Go out and do something. It isn't your room that's a prison, it's yourself. (Sylvia Plath)

Oh what a poet I will flay myself into.

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A dispassionate white sun shone at the summit of the sky. I wanted to hone myself on it till I grew saintly and thin and essential as the blade of a knife.

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It is raining. I am tempted to write a poem. But I remember what it said on one rejection slip: After a heavy rainfall, poems titled RAIN pour in from across the nation.

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A million years of evolution, Eric said bitterly, and what are we? Animals.

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You are the one. Solid the spaces lean on, envious. You are the baby in the barn.

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Aloneness and selfness are too important to betray for company.

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Clouds pass and disperse. Are those the faces of love, those pale irretrievables? Is it for such I agitate my heart?

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I decided I would put off the novel until I had gone to Europe and had a lover, and that I would never learn a word of shorthand. If I never learned shorthand I would never have to use it.

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The silence between us was so profound I thought part of it must be my fault.

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But writing poems and letters doesn't seem to do much good. (Sylvia Plath)

To annihilate the world by annihilation of oneself is the deluded height of desperate egoism.

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I collected men with interesting names. I already knew a Socrates. He was tall and ugly and intellectual and the son of some big Greek movie producer in Hollywood, but also a Catholic, which ruined it for both of us.

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Doreen had intuition. Everything she said was like a secret voice speaking straight out of my own bones.

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The only thing I could think of was turkey neck and turkey gizzards and I felt very depressed.

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Sylvia Plath

Occupation: American Poet
Born: October 27, 1932
Died: February 11, 1963
Quotes count: 354
Wikipedia: Sylvia Plath

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