Sylvia Plath Quotes

1932-1963, American Poet
quotes
8
topics
8
Origin
Topic
“Is there no way out of the mind?”
Mind
“Widow. The word consumes itself.”
Widowhood
“How frail the human heart must be --a mirrored pool of thought...”
Sensitivity
“I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my lids and all is born again.”
Verified"Mad Girl's Love Song" (1953) from Collected Poems (1981) · evidencePerspective
“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.”
Verified"Lady Lazarus" · evidenceDeath and Dying
“Apparently, the most difficult feat for a Cambridge male is to accept a woman not merely as feeling, not merely as thinking, but as managing a complex, vital interweaving of both.”
Colleges and Universities
“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.”
VerifiedThe Bell Jar (1963) · evidenceNeurosis