Sylvia Plath: Trending quotes (page 2)

“I felt wise and cynical as all hell.”

“Perhaps, perhaps this would be the one to pull me out of my plunge.”

“If the moon smiled, she would resemble you.
You leave the same impression
Of something beautiful, but annihilating.”

“I must get back my soul from you; I am killing my flesh without it.”

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

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

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

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

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

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

“How many different deaths I can die?”

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

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

“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”