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“And I am aware of my heart: it opens and closes
Its bowl of red blooms out of sheer love of me.”

“To look at her, you might not guess that inside she is laughing and crying, at her own stupidities and luckiness, and at the strange enigmatic ways of the world which she will spend lifetime trying to learn and understand.”

“If you pluck out my heart
To find what makes it move,
You’ll halt the clock
That syncopates our love.”

Source: Selected Poems

“I am still raw.
I say I may be back.
You know what lies are for.

Even in your Zen heaven we shan't meet.”

Source: Ariel: The Restored Edition

“Is it the sea you hear in me,
Its dissatisfactions?
Or the voice of nothing, that was you madness?”

Sylvia Plath Ariel

Source: Ariel

“The blood jet is poetry,
There is no stopping it.”

Sylvia Plath Ariel

"Kindness" http://www.angelfire.com/tn/plath/kindness.html <br class="br">Source: Ariel (1965)

“Love is the bone and sinew of my curse.”

Sylvia Plath book The Colossus and Other Poems

Source: The Colossus and Other Poems

“I began to see why woman-haters could make such fools of women. Woman-haters were like gods: invulnerable and chock-full of power. They descended, and then they disappeared. You could never catch one.”

Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar (1963), Ch. 9

“I collected men with interesting names.”

Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar

“I woke to the sound of rain.”

Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar

“Stars open among the lilies.
Are you not blinded by such expressionless sirens?
This is the silence of astounded souls.”

Sylvia Plath book Crossing the Water

Source: Crossing the Water

“… we shall board our imagined ship and wildly sail among sacred islands of the mad till death shatters the fabulous stars and makes us real.”

Source: The Collected Poems

“I felt the first man I slept with must be intelligent, so I could respect him.”

Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar

“O love, how did you get here?

--Nick and the Candlestick”

Source: Plath: Poems

“And what is happy? It is a going always on. There is something better to be done than I have done, and spurred by the fair delusion of progress, I will seek to progress, to whip myself on, to more and more- to learning. Always.”

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“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.”

“I hurl my heart to halt his pace.”

Source: The Collected Poems

“I was my own woman.
The next step was to find the proper sort of man.”

Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar

“What a man wants is a mate and what a woman wants is infinite security.”

Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar

“Piece by piece, I fed my wardrobe to the night wind, and flutteringly, like a loved one’s ashes, the gray scraps were ferried off, to settle here, there, exactly where I would never know, in the dark heart of New York.”

Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar