Sylvia Plath cytaty

strona 7

„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.”

“If they substituted the word 'Lust' for 'Love' in the popular songs it would come nearer the truth.”

“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.”

“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.”

“So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.”

“I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow.”

“There I went again, building up a glamorous picture of a man who would love me passionately the minute he met me, and all out of a few prosy nothings.”

“People or stars
Regard me sadly, I disappoint them.

From the poem "Sheep in Fog", 2 December 1962, 28 January 1963”

“So I began to think maybe it was true that when you were married and had children it was like being brainwashed, and afterward you went about as numb as a slave in some private, totalitarian state.”

“I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.”

“I am too pure for you or anyone.

From the poem "Fever 103°", 20 October 1962”

“I would catch sight of some flawless man off in the distance, but as soon as he moved closer I immediately saw he wouldn’t do at all.”

“Here I am, a bundle of past recollections and future dreams, knotted up in a reasonably attractive bundle of flesh. I remember what this flesh has gone through; I dream of what it may go through.”

“Why do we electrocute men for murdering an individual and then pin a purple heart on them for mass slaughter of someone arbitrarily labeled “enemy?”

“I knew you'd decide to be all right again.”

“Character is fate.”

“Wear your heart on your skin in this life.”

“My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.”

“I wish to cry. Yet, I laugh, and my lipstick leaves a red stain like a bloody crescent moon on the top of the beer can.”

“There is so much hurt in this game of searching for a mate, of testing, trying. And you realize suddenly that you forgot it was a game, and turn away in tears.”

“Backward we traveled to reclaim the day
Before we fell, like Icarus, undone;
All we find are altars in decay
And profane words scrawled black across the sun.

--From the poem "Doom of the Exiles", written 16 April 1954”

“Then I decided I would spend the summer writing a novel.

That would fix a lot of people.”

“Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing.”

“No day is safe from news of you.”

“There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room.”

“I have stitched life into me like a rare organ”

“I am dead to them, even though I once flowered.”

“I smile, now, thinking: we all like to think we are important enough to need psychiatrists”

“What a man wants is a mate and what a woman wants is infinite security,’ and, ‘What a man is is an arrow into the future and a what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from.”

“August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.”