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Sylvia Plath, née le 27 octobre 1932 à Jamaica Plain dans la banlieue de Boston et morte le 11 février 1963 à Primrose Hill , est une écrivaine et poétesse américaine, autrice de poèmes, d'un roman, de nouvelles, de livres pour enfants et d'essais.

Si elle est surtout connue de façon internationale pour sa poésie, elle tire également sa notoriété de The Bell Jar , roman d'inspiration autobiographique qui décrit en détail les circonstances de sa première dépression, au début de sa vie d'adulte. Sa vie, son œuvre et son esthétique poétique et littéraire sont le sujet de milliers d'études dans le monde entier. Wikipedia  

✵ 27. octobre 1932 – 11. février 1963   •   Autres noms سیلویا پلات
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Sylvia Plath: Citations en anglais

“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart: I am, I am, I am.”

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Sylvia Plath livre The Bell Jar

Variante: I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart: I am, I am, I am.
Source: The Bell Jar (1963), Ch. 20

“Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one’s head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace.”

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Sylvia Plath livre The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar

“If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”

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Sylvia Plath livre The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar (1963), Ch. 5

“And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter— they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long.”

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Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“I am inhabited by a cry.
Nightly it flaps out
Looking, with its hooks, for something to love.”

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Sylvia Plath Ariel

Source: Ariel

“Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.”

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Variante: Kiss me and you will see how important I am.
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

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

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Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence. I knew perfectly well the cars were making a noise, and the people in them and behind the lit windows of the buildings were making a noise, and the river was making a noise, but I couldn't hear a thing. The city hung in my window, flat as a poster, glittering and blinking, but it might just as well not have been there at all, for the good it did me.”

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Sylvia Plath livre The Bell Jar

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

“I desire the things which will destroy me in the end.”

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Journal entry from July 1950 – 1953, page 63 of the original, page 55 of the collection
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (2000)
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this, I need someone to pour myself into.”

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Variante: How we need that security. How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this. I need someone to pour myself into.
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.”

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Sylvia Plath livre The Bell Jar

Variante: The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn't thought about it.
Source: The Bell Jar

“Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously near to wanting nothing.”

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Draft of letter to Richard Sassoon (December 1955), quoted in Joyce Carol Oates, "Raising Lady Lazarus," The New York Times (2000-11-05) http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/11/05/reviews/001105.05oatest.html
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (2000)
Variante: Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.

“Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I’ve taken for granted.”

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“Is there no way out of the mind?”

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Variante: Is there no way out of the mind?

“I talk to God but the sky is empty.”

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

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

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Sylvia Plath livre The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar

“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.”

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Sylvia Plath Ariel

"Lady Lazarus" http://www.angelfire.com/tn/plath/lady.html
Source: Ariel (1965)

“I felt wise and cynical as all hell.”

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Sylvia Plath livre The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar

“I couldn’t see the point of getting up. I had nothing to look forward to.”

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Source: The Bell Jar

“I didn't know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of the throat and I'd cry for a week.”

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Source: The Bell Jar

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

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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.”

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

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Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“I wondered why I couldn't go the whole way doing what I should any more. This made me sad and tired. Then I wondered why I couldn't go the whole way doing what I shouldn't, the way Doreen did, and this made me even sadder and more tired.”

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Sylvia Plath livre The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar

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