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“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”

Sylvia Plath Ariel

Source: Ariel

“Everything people did seemed so silly, because they only died in the end.”

Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar

“What have I eaten? Lies and smiles.”

Sylvia Plath

“I know pretty much what I like and dislike; but please, don't ask me who I am.”

Sylvia Plath

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my lids and all is born again.”

Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar

"Mad Girl's Love Song" http://www.angelfire.com/tn/plath/madgirl.html (1953) from Collected Poems (1981) <br class="br">Variant: I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again. <br class="br">Source: The Bell Jar

“I have taken a pill to kill
The thin
Papery feeling.”

Sylvia Plath

Source: Ariel: The Restored Edition

“Virginia Woolf helps. Her novels make mine possible.”

Sylvia Plath

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“I dreamed that you bewitched me into bed
And sung me moon-struck, kissed me quite insane.
(I think I made you up inside my head.)”

Sylvia Plath

Source: The Collected Poems

“I’ll never speak to God again.”

Sylvia Plath

“Is there no way out of the mind?”

Sylvia Plath

Variant: Is there no way out of the mind?

“I am gone quite mad with the knowledge of accepting the overwhelming number of things I can never know, places I can never go, and people I can never be.”

Sylvia Plath

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.”

Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar

“I wait and ache.”

Sylvia Plath

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“I, to you, am lost in the gorgeous errors of flesh.”

Sylvia Plath

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“How we need another soul to cling to.”

Sylvia Plath

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“I am sure there are things that can't be cured by a good bath but I can't think of one.”

Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar

“Whenever I'm sad I'm going to die, or so nervous I can't sleep, or in love with somebody I won't be seeing for a week, I slump down just so far and then I say: 'I'll go take a hot bath.”

Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar

“I never feel so much myself as when I'm in a hot bath.”

Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar

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

“I'm doped and thick from my last sleeping pill.”

Sylvia Plath

Source: Ariel: The Restored Edition

“What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.”

Sylvia Plath

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath