Sylvia Plath słynne cytaty
Źródło: Dzienniki. 1950–1962 (ang. The journals of Sylvia Plath, 1950–1962), tłum. Joanna Urban i Paweł Stachura
Sylvia Plath cytaty
„Jak człowiek zacznie tylko o czymś marzyć, to nieuchronnie doznaje rozczarowania.”
Sylvia Plath książka Szklany klosz
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.)
Źródło: Źdźbło w oku (ang. They Eye-Mote) z tomu Kolos, tłum. Teresa Truszkowska
Sylvia Plath: Cytaty po angielsku
“If you love her", I said, "you'll love somebody else someday.”
Sylvia Plath książka Szklany klosz
Źródło: The Bell Jar
Źródło: 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/ <br class="br">The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (2000) <br class="br">Wariant: 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. <br class="br">Źródło: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath książka Szklany klosz
Źródło: The Bell Jar (1963), Ch. 7
Kontekst: 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.”
Źródło: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow.”
Sylvia Plath książka Szklany klosz
Źródło: The Bell Jar
Źródło: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath książka Szklany klosz
Wariant: 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.
Źródło: The Bell Jar
Źródło: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“Wear your heart on your skin in this life.”
Źródło: Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams: Short Stories, Prose and Diary Excerpts
Sylvia Plath książka Szklany klosz
Źródło: The Bell Jar
Źródło: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“Then I decided I would spend the summer writing a novel.
That would fix a lot of people.”
Sylvia Plath książka Szklany klosz
Źródło: The Bell Jar
“Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing.”
Wariant: Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing.
“No day is safe from news of you.”
Źródło: Ariel: The Restored Edition
Sylvia Plath książka Szklany klosz
Źródło: The Bell Jar (1963), Ch. 2
“I am dead to them, even though I once flowered.”
Źródło: The Journals Of Sylvia Plath
“I smile, now, thinking: we all like to think we are important enough to need psychiatrists”
Źródło: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
