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“I talk to God but the sky is empty.”

Draft of letter to Richard Sassoon (1950-02-19)
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (2000)
Variant: I talk to God, but the sky is empty.

“I like you, but not too much. I don’t want to like anybody too much.”

“I felt wise and cynical as all hell.”

Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar

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

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

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

Source: Ariel: The Restored Edition

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

Draft of letter to Richard Sassoon (1956-03-01)
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (2000)
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“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”

Source: Letters Home

“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

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

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“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.”

Source: The Journals of Sylvia Plath

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

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

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

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

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

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“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

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

“How many different deaths I can die?”

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

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

"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

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

Source: The Collected Poems