Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" How frail the human heart must be - a mirrored pool of thought. "
Sylvia Plath
Heart
Human Heart
Thought
Related Quotes:
" We fitted, amusingly enough, into none of the form categories of 'The Young American Couple'... security to us is in ourselves, and no job, not even money, can give us what we have to develop: faith in our work and hard, hard work, which is Spartan in many ways. "
Sylvia Plath
Faith
Work
Money
" 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
Rest
Flying
Back
" The sea was our main entertainment. When company came, we set them before it on rugs, with thermoses and sandwiches and colored umbrellas, as if the water - blue, green, gray, navy or silver as it might be - were enough to watch. "
Sylvia Plath
Blue
Sea
Navy
" I think that personal experience is very important, but certainly it shouldn't be a kind of shut-box and mirror-looking, narcissistic experience. I believe it should be relevant, and relevant to the larger things, the bigger things, such as Hiroshima and Dachau and so on. "
Sylvia Plath
Important
Believe
Experience
" I hope to submit to the little pamphlet magazines here 'freelance' and perhaps shall join the Labour Club, as I really want to become informed on politics, and it seems to have an excellent program. I am definitely not a Conservative, and the Liberals are too vague and close to the latter. "
Sylvia Plath
Hope
Want
Politics
" If I tried to describe my personality, I'd start to gush about living by the ocean half my life and being brought up on 'Alice in Wonderland' and believing in magic for years and years. "
Sylvia Plath
My Life
Life
Start
" My mother had taught shorthand and typing to support us since my father died, and secretly she hated it and hated him for dying and leaving no money because he didn't trust life insurance salesmen. "
Sylvia Plath
Mother
She
Life
" Excellent teachers showered on to us like meteors: Biology teachers holding up human brains, English teachers inspiring us with a personal ideological fierceness about Tolstoy and Plato, Art teachers leading us through the slums of Boston, then back to the easel to hurl public school gouache with social awareness and fury. "
Sylvia Plath
Boston
School
Teachers
" Indecision and reveries are the anesthetics of constructive action. "
Sylvia Plath
Constructive
Action
Indecision
" There must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them. "
Sylvia Plath
Know
Hot
Cure
" A baby! I hated babies. I, who for two and a half years had been the center of a tender universe, felt the axis wrench and a polar chill immobilize my bones. I would be a bystander, a museum mammoth. "
Sylvia Plath
Chill
Half
Museum
" My childhood landscape was not land but the end of the land - the cold, salt, running hills of the Atlantic. I sometimes think my vision of the sea is the clearest thing I own. "
Sylvia Plath
Salt
End
Think
" I talk to God but the sky is empty. "
Sylvia Plath
Empty
Sky
God
" I think the sea swallowed dozens of tea sets - tossed in abandon off liners or consigned to the tide by jilted brides. I collected a shiver of china bits, with borders of larkspur and birds or braids of daisies. No two patterns ever matched. "
Sylvia Plath
Sea
Tide
Think
" A little thing, like children putting flowers in my hair, can fill up the widening cracks in my self-assurance like soothing lanolin. "
Sylvia Plath
Flowers
Hair
Like
" 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
You
Say
Real
" I've begun to think like a Jew, to feel like a Jew. "
Sylvia Plath
Like
Feel
Jew
" Arrogant, I think I have written lines which qualify me to be The Poetess of America (as Ted will be The Poet of England and her dominions). "
Sylvia Plath
Me
Think
America
" But life is long. And it is the long run that balances the short flare of interest and passion. "
Sylvia Plath
Long
Life
Short
" In London the day after Christmas (Boxing Day), it began to snow: my first snow in England. For five years, I had been tactfully asking, 'Do you ever have snow at all?' as I steeled myself to the six months of wet, tepid gray that make up an English winter. 'Ooo, I do remember snow,' was the usual reply, 'when I were a lad.' "
Sylvia Plath
Winter
Christmas
Remember
" I remember that as I was writing a poem on 'Snow' when I was eight, I said aloud, 'I wish I could have the ability to write down the feelings I have now when I am little, because when I grow up, I will know how to write, but I will have forgotten what being little feels like.' "
Sylvia Plath
Writing
I Am
Know
" If you expect nothing from anybody, you're never disappointed. "
Sylvia Plath
Nothing
You
Never
" 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
Life
Creativity
Imagination
" I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. "
Sylvia Plath
Passive
Sad
Active
" For a time, I believed not in God nor Santa Claus, but in mermaids. They seemed as logical and possible to me as the brittle twig of a seahorse in the zoo aquarium or the skates lugged up on the lines of cursing Sunday fishermen - skates the shape of old pillowslips with the full, coy lips of women. "
Sylvia Plath
Sunday
Time
Women
" I have felt great advances in my poetry, the main one being a growing victory over word nuances and a superfluity of adjectives. "
Sylvia Plath
Growing
Poetry
Great
" The next five months are grim ones. I always feel sorry to have the summertime change, with the dark evenings closing in mid-afternoon, and will try to lay in some physical comforts these months - the best insurance against gloominess for me. "
Sylvia Plath
Dark
Me
Insurance
" I want Books and Babies and Beef stews. "
Sylvia Plath
Books
Babies
Beef
" Today is the first of August. It is hot, steamy and wet. 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.' "
Sylvia Plath
Today
Remember
Rain
" I am too pure for you or anyone. "
Sylvia Plath
Am
Too
You