Sylvia Plath Quotes

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

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

Sylvia Plath

I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.

Sylvia Plath

It is as if my life were magically run by two electric currents: joyous positive and despairing negative - whichever is running at the moment dominates my life, floods it.

Sylvia Plath

Kiss me and you will see how important I am.

Sylvia Plath

My mother had taught shorthand and typing to support us since my father died, and secretly she hated it and hated him for dying and leaving no money because he didn't trust life insurance salesmen.

Sylvia Plath

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

Sylvia Plath

Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline. You've got to go so far so fast in such a small space; you've got to burn away all the peripherals.

Sylvia Plath

Poetry at its best can do you a lot of harm.

Sylvia Plath

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

Sylvia Plath