I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
SYLVIA PLATHI felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
SYLVIA PLATHI have stitched life into me like a rare organ.
SYLVIA PLATHPlease, I want so badly for the good things to happen.
SYLVIA PLATHThe abstract kills, the concrete saves.
SYLVIA PLATHI didn’t want my picture taken because I was going to cry. I didn’t know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of my throat and I’d cry for a week.
SYLVIA PLATHCompared with me, a tree is immortal.
SYLVIA PLATHSo much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.
SYLVIA PLATHDon’t let the wicked city get you down.
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 want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night.
SYLVIA PLATHDying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.
SYLVIA PLATHHour by hour, day by day, life becomes possible.
SYLVIA PLATHGo out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.
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 PLATHBefore I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams.
SYLVIA PLATHI love life. But it is hard and I have so much, so very much to learn.
SYLVIA PLATH