I knew you’d decide to be all right again.
SYLVIA PLATHI knew you’d decide to be all right again.
SYLVIA PLATHThe trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn’t thought about it.
SYLVIA PLATHI love life. But it is hard and I have so much, so very much to learn.
SYLVIA PLATHShe stared at her reflection in the glossed shop windows as if to make sure, moment by moment, that she continued to exist.
SYLVIA PLATHPlease don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.
SYLVIA PLATHI have stitched life into me like a rare organ.
SYLVIA PLATHI have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.
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 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 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 PLATHIntoxicated with madness, I’m in love with my sadness.
SYLVIA PLATHI must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.
SYLVIA PLATHI am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
SYLVIA PLATHI write only because There is a voice within me That will not be still.
SYLVIA PLATHIf the body is a temple, then tattoos are its stained glass windows.
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 PLATH