I find that in a novel I can get more of life, perhaps not such intense life, but certainly more of life than in poetry.
SYLVIA PLATHI find that in a novel I can get more of life, perhaps not such intense life, but certainly more of life than in poetry.
SYLVIA PLATHIt is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me.
SYLVIA PLATHI felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery – air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, This is what it is to be happy.
SYLVIA PLATHBefore I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams.
SYLVIA PLATHI want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life.
SYLVIA PLATHIf you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
SYLVIA PLATHI have never found anybody who could stand to accept the daily demonstrative love I feel in me, and give back as good as I give.
SYLVIA PLATHThe sheets grow heavy as a lecher’s kiss.
SYLVIA PLATHI felt wise and cynical as all hell.
SYLVIA PLATHLove is the bone and sinew of my curse.
SYLVIA PLATHMy mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.
SYLVIA PLATHThere is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room.
SYLVIA PLATHI feel terribly vulnerable and ‘not-myself’ when I’m not writing.
SYLVIA PLATHPlease, I want so badly for the good things to happen.
SYLVIA PLATHEternity bores me, I never wanted it.
SYLVIA PLATHWe should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.
SYLVIA PLATH