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Sylvia Plath Quote: “I am afraid. I am not solid, but hollow. I feel behind my eyes a numb, paralyzed cavern, a pit of hell, a mimicking nothingness.”
Sylvia Plath Quote: “A fierce brief fusion which dreamers call real, and realists, an illusion; an insight like the flight of birds...”
Sylvia Plath Quote: “Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it.”
Sylvia Plath Quote: “I’ll never speak to God again.”
Sylvia Plath Quote: “I have never found anybody who could stand to accept the daily demonstrative love I feel in me, and give back as good as I give.”
Sylvia Plath Quote: “I felt dull and flat and full of shattered visions.”
Sylvia Plath Quote: “She stared at her reflection in the glossed shop windows as if to make sure, moment by moment, that she continued to exist.”
Sylvia Plath Quote: “Dancing is the normal prelude to intercourse.”
Sylvia Plath Quote: “Then I decided I would spend the summer writing a novel. That would fix a lot of people.”
Sylvia Plath Quote: “A feeling of tenderness filled my heart. My heroine would be myself, only in disguise.”
Sylvia Plath Quote: “The sheets grow heavy as a lecher’s kiss.”
Sylvia Plath Quote: “As from a star I saw, coldly and soberly, the separateness of everything. I felt the wall of my skin; I am I. That stone is a stone. My beautiful fusion with the things of this world was over.”
Sylvia Plath Quote: “I thought it would be easy, lying in the tub and seeing the redness flower from my wrists, flush after flush through the clear water, till I sank to sleep under a surface gaudy as poppies.”
Sylvia Plath Quote: “I wanted to crawl in between those black lines of print, the way you crawl through a fence, and go to sleep under that beautiful big green fig-tree.”
Sylvia Plath Quote: “The only reason I remembered this play was because it had a mad person in it, and everything I had ever read about mad people stuck in my mind, while everything else flew out.”
Sylvia Plath Quote: “I had imagined a kind, ugly, intuitive man looking up and say, ‘Ah!’ in an encouraging way, as if he could see something I couldn’t, and then I would find words to tell him how I was so scared, as if I were being stuffed farther and farther into a black, airless sack with no way out.”
Sylvia Plath Quote: “The sky leans on me, me, the one upright among all horizontals.”
Sylvia Plath Quote: “The future is what matters – because one never reaches it, but always stays in the present – like the White Queen who had to run like the wind to remain in the same spot.”
Sylvia Plath Quote: “In the month of red leaves I climb to a bed of fire.”
Sylvia Plath Quote: “Love is the bone and sinew of my curse.”
Sylvia Plath Quote: “She. Silent, fawn-eyed. Clever.”
Sylvia Plath Quote: “I am sure there are things that can’t be cured by a good bath but I can’t think of one.”
Sylvia Plath Quote: “That is salvation. To give of love inside. To keep love of life, no matter what, and give to others. Generously.”
Sylvia Plath Quote: “All through June the writing course had stretched before me like a bright, safe bridge over the dull gulf of summer. Now I saw it totter and dissolve, and a body in a white blouse and green skirt plummet into the gap.”
Sylvia Plath Quote: “Is anyone anywhere happy?”
Sylvia Plath Quote: “I knew you’d decide to be all right again.”
Sylvia Plath Quote: “If I was going to fall, I would hang on to my small comforts, at least, for as long as I possibly could.”
Sylvia Plath Quote: “I had been alone more than I could have been had I gone by myself.”
Sylvia Plath Quote: “You’ve only got so long to live.”
Sylvia Plath Quote: “So I perversely circle the late stars, drowsier and drowsier, sleepily longing for something.”
Sylvia Plath Quote: “I cannot undo myself, and the train is steaming.”
Sylvia Plath Quote: “I also hate people to ask cheerfully how you are when they know you’re feeling like hell and expect you to say “fine.”
Sylvia Plath Quote: “I wonder if art divorced from normal and conventional living is as vital as art combined with living: in a word, would marriage sap my creative energy and annihilate my desire for written and pictorial expression which increases with this depth of unsatisfied emotion... or would I achieve a fuller expression in art as well as in the creation of children?”
Sylvia Plath Quote: “For me, poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose.”
Sylvia Plath Quote: “There is history to read- centuries to comprehend before I sleep, millions of lives to assimilate before breakfast tomorrow.”
Sylvia Plath Quote: “I have done, this year, what I said I would: overcome my fear of facing a blank page day after day, acknowledging myself, in my deepest emotions, a writer, come what may.”
Sylvia Plath Quote: “I was quite proud of the calm way I stared at all these gruesome things.”
Sylvia Plath Quote: “O heart, such disorganization!”
Sylvia Plath Quote: “They mistake their star, these papery godfolk.”
Sylvia Plath Quote: “Our democracy is of no use to those who have not been educated to it. Freedom is not of use to those who do not know how to employ it.”
Sylvia Plath Quote: “I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story. From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked.”
Sylvia Plath Quote: “The silence drew off, baring the pebbles and shells and all the tatty wreckage of my life. Then, at the rim of my vision, it gathered itself, and in one sweeping tide, rushed me to sleep.”
Sylvia Plath Quote: “From here to happiness is a road, flat, upright, distances in between blotted out by vision, yet realized by intelligence.”
Sylvia Plath Quote: “What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination. When the sky outside is merely pink, and the rooftops merely black: that photographic mind which paradoxically tells the truth, but the worthless truth, about the world. It is that synthesizing spirit, that “shaping” force, which prolifically sprouts and makes up its own worlds with more inventiveness than God which I desire. If I sit still and don’t do anything, the world goes on beating like a slack drum, without meaning.”
Sylvia Plath Quote: “I need a father. I need a mother. I need some older, wiser being to cry to. I talk to God, but the sky is empty.”
Sylvia Plath Quote: “New York was bad enough. By nine in the morning the fake, country-wet freshness that somehow seeped in overnight evaporated like the tail end of a sweet dream.”
Sylvia Plath Quote: “The trouble about jumping was that if you didn’t pick the right number of stories, you might still be alive when you hit bottom.”
Sylvia Plath Quote: “Cold glass, how you insert yourself Between myself and myself. I scratch like a cat. The blood that runs is dark fruit- An effect, a cosmetic. You smile. No, it is not fatal.”
Sylvia Plath Quote: “Hour by hour, day by day, life becomes possible.”
Sylvia Plath Quote: “Girl, aging girl, is haunted by own nothingness...”
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