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Sylvia Plath: Citations en anglais

“I, love, I am the pure acetylene virgin attended by roses.”

“I am sending back the key
that let me into bluebeard's study; because he would make love to me
I am sending back the key;
in his eye's darkroom I can see
my X-rayed heart, dissected body:
I am sending back the key
that let me into bluebeard s study.”

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“The frost makes a flower,
the dew makes a star.”

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Sylvia Plath Ariel

Source: Ariel

“I wanted to do everything once and for all and be through with it.”

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Sylvia Plath livre The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar

“Your body
Hurts me as the world hurts God”

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“It is a terrible thing to be so open: it is as if my heart put on a face and walked into the world.”

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Sylvia Plath

Source: Drei Frauen: Ein Gedicht für drei Stimmen

“What I cannot forgive is dishonesty - and no matter what, or how hard, I would rather know the truth of which I today had such a clear & devastating vision from his mouth than hear foul evasions, blurrings and rattiness.”

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Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn't know what I was doing in New York.”

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Sylvia Plath livre The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar (1963), Ch. 1, Opening line

“I self-paralyze myself & wonder what I've got in my head.”

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Sylvia Plath

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“Even amidst fierce flames the golden lotus can be planted”

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“A black-sharded lady keeps me in a parrot cage.”

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“I hated to serve men in any way.”

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Sylvia Plath livre The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar

“For the few little successes I may seem to have, there are acres of misgivings and self-doubt.”

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“I inhabit the wax image of myself, a doll's body. Sickness begins here; I am a dartboard for witches.”

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“When they asked some old Roman philosopher or other how he wanted to die, he said he would open his veins in a warm bath. I thought it would be easy, lying in the tub and seeing the redness flower from my wrists, flush after flush through the clear water, till I sank to sleep under a surface gaudy as poppies. But when it came right down to it, the skin of my wrist looked so white and defenseless that I couldn't do it. It was as if what I wanted to kill wasn't in that skin or the thin blue pulse that jumped under my thumb, but somewhere else, deeper, more secret, and a whole lot harder to get at.”

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Sylvia Plath livre The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar (1963), Ch. 12

“It's a tango." Marco maneuvered me out among the dancers. "I love tangos." "I can't dance." "You don't have to dance. I'll do that dancing." Marco hooked an arm around my waist and jerked me up against his dazzling white suit. Then he said, "Pretend you are drowning." I shut my eyes, and the music broke over me like a rainstorm. Marco's leg slid forward against mine and my leg slid back and I seemed to be riveted against him, limb for limb, moving as he moved, without any will or knowledge of my own, and after a while I thought, "It doesn't take two to dance, it only takes one," and I let myself blow and bend like a tree in the wind. "What did I tell you?”

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Sylvia Plath livre The Bell Jar

Marco's breath scorched my ear. "You're a perfectly respectable dancer."
Source: The Bell Jar (1963), Ch. 9

“You said you would kill it this morning.
Do not kill it. It startles me still,
The jut of that odd, dark head, pacing

Through the uncut grass on the elm's hill.
It is something to own a pheasant,
Or just to be visited at all.

I am not mystical: it isn't
As if I thought it had a spirit.
It is simply in its element.

That gives it a kingliness, a right.”

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"Pheasant" http://www.angelfire.com/tn/plath/pheasant.html Winter Trees (1972)

“Darling, all night
I have been flickering, off, on, off, on.
The sheets grow heavy as a lecher's kiss.”

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Sylvia Plath Ariel

"Fever 103" http://www.angelfire.com/tn/plath/103.html Ariel (1965)

“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.”

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Sylvia Plath livre Crossing the Water

"Stillborn" http://www.angelfire.com/tn/plath/still.html Crossing the Water (1971)

“The woman is perfected
Her dead

Body wears the smile of accomplishment,
The illusion of a Greek necessity

Flows in the scrolls of her toga,
Her bare

Feet seem to be saying:
We have come so far, it is over.

Each dead child coiled, a white serpent,
One at each little

Pitcher of milk, now empty.
She has folded

Them back into her body as petals
Of a rose close when the garden

Stiffens and odors bleed
From the sweet, deep throats of the night flower.

The moon has nothing to be sad about,
Staring from her hood of bone.

She is used to this sort of thing.
Her blacks crackle and drag.”

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Sylvia Plath Ariel

"Edge" http://www.angelfire.com/tn/plath/edge.html Ariel (1965)

“Later Buddy told me the woman was on a drug that would make her forget she'd had any pain and that when she swore and groaned she really didn't know what she was doing because she was in a kind of twilight sleep. I thought it sounded just like the sort of drug a man would invent. Here was a woman in terrible pain, obviously feeling every bit of it or she wouldn't groan like that, and she would go straight home and start another baby, because the drug would make her forget how bad the pain had been, when all the time, in some secret part of her, that long, blind, doorless and windowless corridor of pain was waiting to open up and shut her in again.”

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Sylvia Plath livre The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar (1963), Ch. 6

“"Does she know you love her?" "Of course." I paused. The obstacle seemed unreal to me. "If you love her," I said, "you'll love somebody else someday."”

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Sylvia Plath livre The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar (1963), Ch. 9

“Ironically, Henry James' biography comforts me & I long to make known to him his posthumous reputation — he wrote, in pain, gave all his life (which is more than I could think of doing — I have Ted, will have children — but few friends) & the critics insulted & mocked him, readers didn't read him.”

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Sylvia Plath

1958-04-22
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (2000)

“I am incapable of more knowledge.
What is this, this face
So murderous in its strangle of branches? —

Its snaky acids hiss.
It petrifies the will. These are the isolate, slow faults,
That kill, that kill, that kill.”

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Sylvia Plath Ariel

"Elm"
Ariel (1965)

“Axes
After whose stroke the wood rings,
And the echoes!
Echoes travelling
Off from the centre like horses.”

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Sylvia Plath Ariel

"Words" http://www.angelfire.com/tn/plath/words.html Ariel (1965)

“You do not do, you do not do
Any more, black shoe
In which I have lived like a foot
For thirty years, poor and white,
Barely daring to breathe or Achoo.”

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Sylvia Plath Ariel

"Daddy" http://www.angelfire.com/tn/plath/daddy.html Ariel (1965)

“Now I am a lake. A woman bends over me,
Searching my reaches for what she really is.
Then she turns to those liars, the candles or the moon.
I see her back, and reflect it faithfully.
She rewards me with tears and an agitation of hands.
I am important to her. She comes and goes.
Each morning it is her face that replaces the darkness.
In me she has drowned a young girl, and in me an old woman
Rises toward her day after day, like a terrible fish.”

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Sylvia Plath livre Crossing the Water

"Mirror" http://www.angelfire.com/tn/plath/mirror.html Crossing the Water (1971)

“So many of us!
So many of us!

We are shelves, we are
Tables, we are meek,
We are edible,

Nudgers and shovers
In spite of ourselves.
Our kind multiplies:

We shall by morning
Inherit the earth.
Our foot's in the door.”

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Sylvia Plath The Colossus

"Mushrooms" http://www.angelfire.com/tn/plath/mushrooms.html The Colossus (1960)

“These hills are too green and sweet to have tasted salt.
I follow the sheep path between them. A last hook brings me
To the hills' northern face, and the face is orange rock
That looks out on nothing, nothing but a great space
Of white and pewter lights, and a din like silversmiths
Beating and beating at an intractable metal.”

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Sylvia Plath livre Crossing the Water

"Blackberrying" http://www.angelfire.com/tn/plath/berry.html Crossing the Water (1971)

“I hate her," I said, and waited for the blow to fall. But Doctor Nolan only smiled at me as if something had pleased her very, very much and said, "I suppose you do.”

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Sylvia Plath livre The Bell Jar

Source: The Bell Jar (1963), Ch. 16

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