Sylvia Plath: Quotes about love

Sylvia Plath was American poet, novelist and short story writer. Explore interesting quotes on love.
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“I am inhabited by a cry.
Nightly it flaps out
Looking, with its hooks, for something to love.”

Sylvia Plath Ariel

Source: Ariel

“I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.”

Sylvia Plath

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.”

Sylvia Plath

Sylvia Plath quote: “let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences”

“let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences”

Sylvia Plath

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“Can you understand? Someone, somewhere, can you understand me a little, love me a little? For all my despair, for all my ideals, for all that - I love life. But it is hard, and I have so much - so very much to learn.”

Sylvia Plath

Source: The Journals of Sylvia Plath

“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.”

Sylvia Plath

Source: The Journals of Sylvia Plath

“Ever since I was small I loved feeling somebody comb my hair. It made me go all sleepy and peaceful.”

Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar

“Is it the sea you hear in me?
Its dissatisfactions?
Or the voice of nothing, that was your madness?

Love is a shadow.
How you lie and cry after it.”

Sylvia Plath

Source: Ariel: The Restored Edition

“The blood of love welled up in my heart with a slow pain.”

Sylvia Plath

1950-07-17 http://books.guardian.co.uk/firstchapters/story/0,6761,222716,00.html <br class="br">The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (2000) <br class="br">Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“I am jealous of those who think more deeply, who write better, who draw better, who ski better, who look better, who live better, who love better than I.”

Sylvia Plath

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“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 am accused. I dream of massacres.
I am a garden of black and red agonies. I drink them,
Hating myself, hating and fearing. And now the
world conceives
Its end and runs toward it, arms held out in love.”

Sylvia Plath

“How could I write about life when I'd never had a love affair or a baby or seen anybody die?”

Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar

“If you love her", I said, "you'll love somebody else someday.”

Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar

“If they substituted the word 'Lust' for 'Love' in the popular songs it would come nearer the truth.”

Sylvia Plath

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“There I went again, building up a glamorous picture of a man who would love me passionately the minute he met me, and all out of a few prosy nothings.”

Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar

“I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.”

Sylvia Plath

“If you pluck out my heart
To find what makes it move,
You’ll halt the clock
That syncopates our love.”

Sylvia Plath

Source: Selected Poems