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“I fancied you'd return the way you said,
But I grow old and I forget your name.

--From the poem "Mad Girl's Love Song”

Sylvia Plath

“I want to talk to everybody I can as deeply as I can. I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night.”

Sylvia Plath

“Writing, then, was a substitute for myself: if you don't love me, love my writing & love me for my writing. It is also much more: a way of ordering and reordering the chaos of experience.”

Sylvia Plath

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“I cut you out because I couldn't stand being a passing fancy.”

Sylvia Plath

“Oh what a poet I will flay myself into.”

Sylvia Plath

“A dispassionate white sun shone at the summit of the sky. I wanted to hone myself on it till I grew saintly and thin and essential as the blade of a knife.”

Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar

“If only I can find him… the man who will be intelligent, yet physically magnetic and personable. If I can offer that combination, why shouldn't I expect it in a man?”

Sylvia Plath

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“It is raining. I am tempted to write a poem. But I remember what it said on one rejection slip: After a heavy rainfall, poems titled RAIN pour in from across the nation.”

Sylvia Plath

1950-07-06
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (2000)
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“I don't see what women see in other women," I'd told Doctor Nolan in my interview that noon. "What does a woman see in a woman that she can't see in a man?"
Doctor Nolan paused. Then she said, "Tenderness.”

Sylvia Plath

“What is so real as the cry of a child?
A rabbit's cry may be wilder
But it has no soul.”

Sylvia Plath Ariel

Source: Ariel

“Not easy to state the change you made.
If I'm alive now, I was dead,
Though, like a stone, unbothered by it.”

Sylvia Plath

Source: The Collected Poems

“Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children.”

Sylvia Plath

&quot;The Munich Mannequins&quot; http://www.angelfire.com/tn/plath/munich.html <br class="br">Ariel (1965) <br class="br">Source: The Collected Poems

“I'm never going to get married."
"You're crazy." Buddy brightened. "You'll change your mind."
"No. My mind's made up.”

Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar

“If there's anything I look down on, it's a man in a blue outfit.”

Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar

“I didn't really see why people should look at me. Plenty of people looked queerer than I did.”

Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar

“What obsession do men have for destruction and murder? Who do we electrocute men for murdering an individual and then pin a purple heart on them for mass slaughter of someone arbitrarily labeled 'enemy?”

Sylvia Plath

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath