Sylvia Plath Quotes

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

I sometimes think my vision of the sea is the clearest thing I own. I pick it up, exile that I am, like the purple ‘lucky stones’ I used to collect with a white ring all the way round, or the shell of...

I suppose if I gave myself the chance I could be an alcoholic.

I thought how strange it had never occurred to me before that I was only purely happy until I was nine years old.

I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow, the million moving shapes and cul-de-sacs of shadow. There was shadow in bureau drawers and closets and suitcases, and shadow under hous...

I told Doreen I would not go to the show or the luncheon or the film premiere, but that I would not go to Coney Island either, I would stay in bed. Then I wondered why I couldn't go the whole way doin...

I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.

I wondered at what point in space the silly, sham blue of the sky turned black.

I wondered what terrible thing it was that I had done.

I would catch sight of some flawless man off in the distance, but as soon as he moved closer I immediately saw he wouldn’t do at all.

I'm a riddle in nine syllables,An elephant, a ponderous house, A melon strolling on two tendrils. O red fruit, ivory, fine timbers!This loaf's big with its yeasty rising. Money's new-minted in this fa...

If only I knew what I wanted I could try to see about getting it.

If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain or bitter - - - for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.... Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. Y...

It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York.

It's like watching paris from an express caboose heading in the opposite direction - every second the city gets smaller and smaller, only you feel it's really you getting smaller and smaller and lonel...

I’d discovered, after a lot of extreme apprehension about what spoons to use, that if you do something incorrect at table with a certain arrogance, as if you knew perfectly well you were doing it prop...

Let me fly with you.

Love set you going like a fat gold watch.

My heartbeat boomed like a dull motor in my ears. I am I am I am.

My heroine would be myself, only in disguise.