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Sylvia Plath photo

“What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.”

Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer
Sylvia Plath photo

“I write only because
There is a voice within me
That will not be still”

Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer

Source: Letters Home

Sylvia Plath photo

“At twenty I tried to die
And get back, back, back to you.
I thought even the bones would do.”

Sylvia Plath Ariel

Source: Ariel

Sylvia Plath photo

“I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.”

Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath photo

“If I didn’t think, I’d be much happier.”

Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer
Sylvia Plath photo

“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 (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer

Source: The Journals of Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath photo

“I may never be happy, but tonight I am content.”

Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath photo

“The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”

Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath photo

“It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.”

Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath photo

“I felt dreadfully inadequate. The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn’t thought about it.”

Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar

Variant: The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn't thought about it.
Source: The Bell Jar

Sylvia Plath photo

“We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.”

Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer
Sylvia Plath photo

“How many different deaths I can die?”

Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath photo

“Out of the ash
I rise with my red hair
and I eat men like air.”

Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer

"Lady Lazarus"
Ariel (1965)
Variant: p>Herr God, Herr Lucifer,
Beware.
Beware.Out of the ash
I rise with my red hair
And I eat men like air.</p
Source: Ariel: The Restored Edition

Sylvia Plath photo

“Worse even
than your maddening
song, your silence." -”

Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer

Source: The Collected Poems

Sylvia Plath photo

“They had to call and call
And pick the worms off me like sticky pearls.

--From the poem "Lady Lazarus", written 23-29 October 1962”

Sylvia Plath Ariel

Source: Ariel

Sylvia Plath photo

“What have I eaten? Lies and smiles.”

Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer
Sylvia Plath photo

“I know pretty much what I like and dislike; but please, don't ask me who I am.”

Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath photo

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

Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar

"Mad Girl's Love Song" http://www.angelfire.com/tn/plath/madgirl.html (1953) from Collected Poems (1981)
Variant: I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.
Source: The Bell Jar

Sylvia Plath photo

“I have taken a pill to kill
The thin
Papery feeling.”

Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer

Source: Ariel: The Restored Edition