“If you love her", I said, "you'll love somebody else someday.”
Source: The Bell Jar
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.
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“If you love her", I said, "you'll love somebody else someday.”
Source: The Bell Jar
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
1950 entry, quoted in Kate Moses, "The Real Sylvia Plath," Salon.com (2000-06-01) http://dir.salon.com/story/books/feature/2000/06/01/plath2/
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (2000)
Variante: If I didn't think, I'd be much happier; if I didn't have any sex organs, I wouldn't waver on the brink of nervous emotion and tears all the time.
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Source: The Bell Jar (1963), Ch. 7
Contexte: Instead of the world being divided up into Catholics and Protestants or Republicans and Democrats or white men and black men or even men and women, I saw the world divided into people who had slept with somebody and people who hadn't, and this seemed the only really significant difference between one person and another. I thought a spectacular change would come over me the day I crossed the boundary line.
“So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.”
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow.”
Source: The Bell Jar
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“I am too pure for you or anyone.
From the poem "Fever 103°", 20 October 1962”
Source: The Collected Poems
Variante: The same thing happened over and over: I would catch sight of some flawless man in the distance, but as soon as he moved closer I immediately saw he wouldn’t do at all.
Source: The Bell Jar
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“Wear your heart on your skin in this life.”
Source: Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: Short Stories, Prose and Diary Excerpts
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“Then I decided I would spend the summer writing a novel.
That would fix a lot of people.”
Source: The Bell Jar
“Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing.”
Variante: Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing.
“I smile, now, thinking: we all like to think we are important enough to need psychiatrists”
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath