Sylvia Plath: Quotes about people

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

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“I didn't really see why people should look at me. Plenty of people looked queerer than I did.”

Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar

“I love the people,' I said. 'I have room in me for love, and for ever so many little lives.”

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“Secretly, in studies and attics and schoolrooms all over America, people must be writing.”

Sylvia Plath book The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar

“I don't see,' I said, 'how people stand being old. Your insides all dry up. When you're young you're so self-reliant. You don't even need much religion.”

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“These poems do not live: it's a sad diagnosis.
They grew their toes and fingers well enough,
Their little foreheads bulged with concentration.
If they missed out on walking about like people
It wasn't for any lack of mother-love.”

Sylvia Plath book Crossing the Water

"Stillborn" http://www.angelfire.com/tn/plath/still.html <br class="br">Crossing the Water (1971)