Sylvia Plath Quotes

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).

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

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.

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.

But life is long. And it is the long run that balances the short flare of interest and passion.

Indecision and reveries are the anesthetics of constructive action.

There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won’t cure, but I don’t know many of them.

The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it.

Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing.

Every woman adores a Fascist.

One should be able to control and manipulate experiences with an informed and intelligent mind.

Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.

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.

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.