Sylvia Plath Quotes

Sylvia Plath Quotes.

Arrogant, I think I have written lines which qualify me

Arrogant, I think I have written lines which qualify me to be The Poetess of America (as Ted will be The Poet of England and her dominions).
Sylvia Plath
So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.
Sylvia Plath
Apparently, the most difficult feat for a Cambridge male is to accept a woman not merely as feeling, not merely as thinking, but as managing a complex, vital interweaving of both.
Sylvia Plath
I see in Cambridge, particularly among the women dons, a series of such grotesques! It is almost like a caricature series from Dickens to see our head table at Newnham.
Sylvia Plath
But life is long. And it is the long run that balances the short flare of interest and passion.
Sylvia Plath
Indecision and reveries are the anesthetics of constructive action.
Sylvia Plath
There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't

There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won’t cure, but I don’t know many of them.
Sylvia Plath
The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it.
Sylvia Plath
Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing.
Sylvia Plath
Every woman adores a Fascist.
Sylvia Plath
One should be able to control and manipulate experiences with an informed and intelligent mind.
Sylvia Plath
Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.
Sylvia Plath
Since my woman's world is perceived greatly through the

Since my woman’s world is perceived greatly through the emotions and the senses, I treat it that way in my writing – and am often overweighted with heavy descriptive passages and a kaleidoscope of similes.
Sylvia Plath
I want to live and feel all the shades, tones, and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.
Sylvia Plath