Top Sylvia Plath Quotes

We have conversations with each other most nights - Sylvia Plath and me!

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 morning!

I'm never going to get married.You're crazy. Buddy brightened. You'll change your mind.No. My mind's made up.

Over your body the clouds goHigh, high and icilyAnd a little flat, as if theyFloated on a glass that was invisible.Unlike swans, Having no reflections;Unlike you, With no strings attached.All cool, al...

They might ignore me immediately. In my moon suit and funeral veil. I am no source of honeySo why should they turn on me?Tomorrow I will be sweet God, I will set them free.

She has foldedThem back into her body as petalsOf a rose close when the garden Stiffens and odours bleedFrom the sweet, deep throats of the night flower. The moon has nothing to be sad about, Staring...

The thought that I might kill myself formed in my mind coolly as a tree or a flower.

I need more than anything right now what is, of course, most impossible, someone to love me, to be with me at night when I wake up in shuddering horror and fear of the cement tunnels leading down to t...

I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.

I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;

If you dissect a bird / to diagram the tongue, / you'll cut the chord / articulating song.

I have stitched life into me like a rare organ

All night your moth-breathFlickers among the flat pink roses. I wake to listen.A far sea moves in my ear.