Sylvia Plath: Likeness

Sylvia Plath was American poet, novelist and short story writer. Explore interesting quotes on likeness.

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“Dying
Is an art, like everything else.
I do it exceptionally well.

I do it so it feels like hell.
I do it so it feels real.
I guess you could say I've a call.”

Sylvia Plath Ariel

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

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

Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar

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

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“Every woman adores a Fascist,
The boot in the face, the brute
Brute heart of a brute like you.”

Source: Ariel: The Restored Edition

“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

“I like people too much or not at all.”

“Opinions are like orgasms… mine matters most and I really don’t care if you have one.”

“The door of the novel, like the door of the poem, also shuts. But not so fast, nor with such manic, unanswerable finality.”

Source: Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: Short Stories, Prose and Diary Excerpts

“I like people too much or not at all. I've got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.”

Variant: Then it hit me and I just blurted, 'I like people too much or not at all. I've got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“I am still so naïve; I know pretty much what I like and dislike; but please, don’t ask me who I am. A passionate, fragmentary girl, maybe?”

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“So many people are shut up tight inside themselves like boxes, yet they would open up, unfolding quite wonderfully, if only you were interested in them."

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Source: Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: Short Stories, Prose and Diary Excerpts

“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

“I began to think vodka was my drink at last. It didn’t taste like anything, but it went straight down into my stomach like a sword swallowers’ sword and made me feel powerful and godlike.”

Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar

“It was my first big chance, but here I was, sitting back and letting it run through my fingers like so much water.”

Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar

“I felt dumb and subdued. Every time I tried to concentrate, my mind glided off, like a skater, into a large empty space, and pirouetted there, absently.”

Source: CliffsNotes on Plath's The Bell Jar

“I felt myself melting into the shadows like the negative of a person I'd never seen before in my life.”

Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar

“Maybe forgetfulness, like a kind snow, should numb and cover them. But they were a part of me. They were my landscape.”

Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar

“Now I know what loneliness is, I think. Momentary loneliness, anyway. It comes from a vague core of the self - - like a disease of the blood, dispersed throughout the body so that one cannot locate the matrix, the spot of contagion.”

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“Why can’t I try on different lives, like dresses, to see which fits best and is more becoming?”

“I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.”