Don’t let the wicked city get you down.
SYLVIA PLATHDon’t let the wicked city get you down.
SYLVIA PLATHIt is awful to want to go away and to want to go nowhere.
SYLVIA PLATHI am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
SYLVIA PLATHI talk to God but the sky is empty.
SYLVIA PLATHI write only because There is a voice within me That will not be still.
SYLVIA PLATHOpinions are like orgasms, mine matters most and I really don’t care if you have one.
SYLVIA PLATHIntoxicated with madness, I’m in love with my sadness.
SYLVIA PLATHWe must be moving, working, making dreams to run toward; the poverty of life without dreams is too horrible to imagine.
SYLVIA PLATHIf you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
SYLVIA PLATHI am not cruel, only truthful.
SYLVIA PLATHHow we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this, I need someone to pour myself into.
SYLVIA PLATHPerfection is terrible, it cannot have children.
SYLVIA PLATHI love my rejection slips. They show me I try.
SYLVIA PLATHA man’s world is different from a woman’s world and a man’s emotions are different from a woman’s emotions and only marriage can bring the two different sets of emotions together properly.
SYLVIA PLATHI want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
SYLVIA PLATHI feel terribly vulnerable and ‘not-myself’ when I’m not writing.
SYLVIA PLATH