Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.
SYLVIA PLATHGo out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.
SYLVIA PLATHI am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
SYLVIA PLATHSee, the darkness is leaking from the cracks. I cannot contain it. I cannot contain my life.
SYLVIA PLATHPlease, I want so badly for the good things to happen.
SYLVIA PLATHThe constant struggle in mature life, I think, is to accept the necessity of tragedy and conflict, and not to try to escape to some falsely simple solution which does not include these more somber complexities.
SYLVIA PLATHThe trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn’t thought about it.
SYLVIA PLATHI shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.
SYLVIA PLATHBefore I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams.
SYLVIA PLATHThe hardest thing, I think, is to live richly in the present, without letting it be tainted and spoiled out of fear for the future or regret for a badly-managed past.
SYLVIA PLATHI like people too much or not at all. I’ve got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.
SYLVIA PLATHMy mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.
SYLVIA PLATHI am too pure for you or anyone.
SYLVIA PLATHI desire the things that will destroy me in the end.
SYLVIA PLATHOnly I wasn’t steering anything, not even myself.
SYLVIA PLATHIf you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
SYLVIA PLATHDying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.
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