I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery – air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, This is what it is to be happy.
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 PLATHI want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night.
SYLVIA PLATHSo learn about life. Cut yourself a big slice with the silver server, a big slice of pie. Open your eyes. Let life happen.
SYLVIA PLATHHour by hour, day by day, life becomes possible.
SYLVIA PLATHI took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.
SYLVIA PLATHIf you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.
SYLVIA PLATHLove is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it
SYLVIA PLATHDon’t let the wicked city get you down.
SYLVIA PLATHThe trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn’t thought about it.
SYLVIA PLATHPerfection is terrible, it cannot have children.
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 PLATHGo out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.
SYLVIA PLATHI felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.
SYLVIA PLATHPeople or stars Regard me sadly, I disappoint them.
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 PLATHI am not cruel, only truthful.
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