I am dead to them, even though I once flowered.
SYLVIA PLATHI am dead to them, even though I once flowered.
SYLVIA PLATHI don’t care about anyone, and the feeling is quite obviously mutual.
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 PLATHI smile, now, thinking: we all like to think we are important enough to need psychiatrists.
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 PLATHPerfection is terrible, it cannot have children.
SYLVIA PLATHI talk to God but the sky is empty.
SYLVIA PLATHThe silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence.
SYLVIA PLATHI find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
SYLVIA PLATHOnly I wasn’t steering anything, not even myself.
SYLVIA PLATHI find myself absolutely fulfilled when I have written a poem.
SYLVIA PLATHWear your heart on your skin in this life.
SYLVIA PLATHBefore I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams.
SYLVIA PLATHWhat I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.
SYLVIA PLATHTomorrow is another day toward death.
SYLVIA PLATHThe abstract kills, the concrete saves.
SYLVIA PLATH