Sylvia Plath cytaty

strona 10

„Być może pewnego dnia doznam nagle objawienia
I zobaczę drugą stronę tego monumentalnego, groteskowego żartu.
I zaśmieję się wtedy.
I zrozumiem, czym jest życie.”

„Niczym nieokreślony przestępca
Umieram na różne sposoby.”

„Me serce pod twą stopą, pokrewne kamieniom.”

„Pewne rzeczy tego świata są niestrawne.”

„Moje lustro zasnuwa się mgłą –
Jeszcze kilka oddechów, a już niczego nie odbije.”

„Jeśli chcesz o czymś zapomnieć, oznacza to, że nie możesz przestać o tym myśleć.”

„Jak człowiek zacznie tylko o czymś marzyć, to nieuchronnie doznaje rozczarowania.”

„Mężczyzna to strzała skierowana w przyszłość, a kobieta jest miejscem, z którego ta strzała wychodzi.”

„Księżyc to nie drzwi przecież. Tylko twarz własna,
blada jak pięść człowiecza gniewnie zaciśnięta.”

„Umieranie jest sztuką, tak jak wszystko inne. Robię to wyjątkowo dobrze.”

„Miłość jest treścią mego przekleństwa.”

„Doskonały lęk oczyszcza duszę.”

„Trudno opisać zmianę, jaką wniosłeś w me życie.
Jeśli teraz żyję, przedtem byłam jak martwa,
Choć jak kamień nic sobie z tego nie robiłam
Trwając w miejscu zgodnie ze zwyczajem.”

„Doskonałość jest straszna, nie ma potomstwa.”

„Swój czas poślubiłam cieniowi.”

„Pragnę być tym, czym byłam,
Zanim łóżko i zanim nóż,
Agrafa ozdobna i maść
Ujęły mnie jak w nawias;
Chcę koni płynących na wietrze,
Miejsca i czasu poza umysłem.”

„Tatusiu, teraz możesz cicho leżeć w grobie.
W twoim tłustym, czarnym sercu kołek tkwi,
A wieśniacy nie wylali nawet jednej łzy.
Teraz tańczą i depczą po tobie.
Oni zawsze WIEDZIELI, że to ty.
Tato, tato, ty draniu, skończyłam z tym.”

„Skąd mogłam wiedzieć, czy kiedyś, w przyszłości, w Europie czy gdzie indziej – szklany klosz znowu na mnie nie spadnie, nie nakryje mnie, zniekształcając moje widzenie świata.”

“I don't see what women see in other women," I'd told Doctor Nolan in my interview that noon. "What does a woman see in a woman that she can't see in a man?"
Doctor Nolan paused. Then she said, "Tenderness.”

“What is so real as the cry of a child?
A rabbit's cry may be wilder
But it has no soul.”

“Not easy to state the change you made.
If I'm alive now, I was dead,
Though, like a stone, unbothered by it.”

“Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children.”

“Aloneness and selfness are too important to betray for company.”

“I'm never going to get married."
"You're crazy." Buddy brightened. "You'll change your mind."
"No. My mind's made up.”

“If there's anything I look down on, it's a man in a blue outfit.”

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

“What obsession do men have for destruction and murder? Who do we electrocute men for murdering an individual and then pin a purple heart on them for mass slaughter of someone arbitrarily labeled 'enemy?”

“Clouds pass and disperse.
Are those the faces of love, those pale irretrievables?
Is it for such I agitate my heart?”

“I decided I would put off the novel until I had gone to Europe and had a lover, and that I would never learn a word of shorthand. If I never learned shorthand I would never have to use it.”

“But everybody has exactly the same smiling frightened face, with the look that says: "I'm important. If you only get to know me, you will see how important I am. Look into my eyes. Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.”

“The silence between us was so profound I thought part of it must be my fault.”

“But writing poems and letters doesn't seem to do much good.”

“I couldn't stand the idea of a woman having to have a single pure life and a man being able to have a double life, one pure and one not.”

“To annihilate the world by annihilation of oneself is the deluded height of desperate egoism.”

“I collected men with interesting names. I already knew a Socrates. He was tall and ugly and intellectual and the son of some big Greek movie producer in Hollywood, but also a Catholic, which ruined it for both of us.”

“I am made, crudely, for success.”

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

“Doreen had intuition. Everything she said was like a secret voice speaking straight out of my own bones.”

“The only thing I could think of was turkey neck and turkey gizzards and I felt very depressed.”

“Stupid pupil, it has to take everything in.”

“God has to remind us this isn't heaven by a long shot, so he increases the radios and lethal flies.”

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

“I laid my face to the smooth face of the marble and howled my loss into the cold salt rain.”

“The day I went into physics class it was death.”

“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.”

“God, it was good to let go, let the tight mask fall off, and the bewildered, chaotic fragments pour out. It was the purge, the catharsis.”

“The sky leans on me, me, the one upright among all horizontals.”