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“There is so much hurt in this game of searching for a mate, of testing, trying. And you realize suddenly that you forgot it was a game, and turn away in tears.”

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“Backward we traveled to reclaim the day
Before we fell, like Icarus, undone;
All we find are altars in decay
And profane words scrawled black across the sun.

--From the poem "Doom of the Exiles", written 16 April 1954”

Source: The Collected Poems

“Then I decided I would spend the summer writing a novel.

That would fix a lot of people.”

Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar

“Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing.”

Variant: Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing.

“No day is safe from news of you.”

Source: Ariel: The Restored Edition

“There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room.”

Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar (1963), Ch. 2

“I have stitched life into me like a rare organ”

“I am dead to them, even though I once flowered.”

Source: The Journals Of Sylvia Plath

“I smile, now, thinking: we all like to think we are important enough to need psychiatrists”

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“What a man wants is a mate and what a woman wants is infinite security,’ and, ‘What a man is is an arrow into the future and a what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from.”

Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar

“August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.”

“Oh, something is there, waiting for me. Perhaps someday the revelation will burst in upon me and I will see the other side of this monumental grotesque joke. And then I'll laugh. And then I'll know what life is.”

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“I used to pray to recover you.”

Source: Ariel: The Restored Edition

“All the heat and fear had purged itself. I felt surprisingly at peace. The bell jar hung suspended a few feet above my head. I was open to the circulating air.”

Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar

“You smile.
No, it is not fatal.”

“Well, I know now. I know a little more how much a simple thing like a snowfall can mean to a person”

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“I think writers are the most narcissistic people. Well, I musn't say this, I like many of them, a great many of my friends are writers.”

“I had been alone more than I could have been had I gone by myself.”

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“And I a smiling woman. I am only thirty. And like the cat I have nine times to die.”

Sylvia Plath Ariel

Source: Ariel

“I wonder about all the roads not taken and am moved to quote Frost… but won't. It is sad to be able only to mouth
other poets. I want someone to mouth me.”