Sylvia Plath słynne cytaty
Źródło: Dzienniki. 1950–1962 (ang. The journals of Sylvia Plath, 1950–1962), tłum. Joanna Urban i Paweł Stachura
„Moje lustro zasnuwa się mgłą –
Jeszcze kilka oddechów, a już niczego nie odbije.”
Źródło: Ostatnie słowa
Sylvia Plath cytaty
„Jak człowiek zacznie tylko o czymś marzyć, to nieuchronnie doznaje rozczarowania.”
Szklany klosz (1963)
„Umieranie jest sztuką, tak jak wszystko inne. Robię to wyjątkowo dobrze.”
Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. (ang.)
„Miłość jest treścią mego przekleństwa.”
Źródło: Poemat na urodziny
„Doskonały lęk oczyszcza duszę.”
Źródło: Upiorny Johnny i biblia snów
Źródło: Źdźbło w oku (ang. They Eye-Mote) z tomu Kolos, tłum. Teresa Truszkowska
Sylvia Plath: Cytaty po angielsku
"Elm" http://www.angelfire.com/tn/plath/elm.html
Źródło: Ariel (1965)
Kontekst: p>I am inhabited by a cry.
Nightly it flaps out
Looking, with its hooks, for something to love.I am terrified by this dark thing
That sleeps in me;
All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity.</p
“Everything people did seemed so silly, because they only died in the end.”
Źródło: The Bell Jar
“It is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.”
Źródło: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Źródło: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.”
Źródło: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“Every woman adores a Fascist,
The boot in the face, the brute
Brute heart of a brute like you.”
Źródło: Ariel: The Restored Edition
“I could feel the winter shaking my bones and banging my teeth together.”
Źródło: The Bell Jar
Źródło: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“I have a violence in me that is hot as death-blood.”
Źródło: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Źródło: Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: Short Stories, Prose and Diary Excerpts
“I desire the things which will destroy me in the end.”
Źródło: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences”
Źródło: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;
I lift my lids and all is born again.”
"Mad Girl's Love Song" http://www.angelfire.com/tn/plath/madgirl.html (1953) from Collected Poems (1981)
Wariant: I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.
Źródło: The Bell Jar
Wariant: Then it hit me and I just blurted, 'I like people too much or not at all. I've got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.
Źródło: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“I must get back my soul from you; I am killing my flesh without it.”
Draft of letter to Richard Sassoon (1956-03-01)
The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (2000)
Źródło: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Źródło: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“I don’t care about anyone, and the feeling is quite obviously mutual.”
Źródło: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath