Don’t let the wicked city get you down.
SYLVIA PLATHDon’t let the wicked city get you down.
SYLVIA PLATHPerhaps some day I’ll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.
SYLVIA PLATHI don’t care about anyone, and the feeling is quite obviously mutual.
SYLVIA PLATHBefore I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams.
SYLVIA PLATHI took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.
SYLVIA PLATHI want to be important. By being different. And these girls are all the same.
SYLVIA PLATHPlease, I want so badly for the good things to happen.
SYLVIA PLATHLife has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some hurtful self-questioning.
SYLVIA PLATHI shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.
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 PLATHI am myself. That is not enough.
SYLVIA PLATHPerhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.
SYLVIA PLATHWhat horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.
SYLVIA PLATHI felt myself melting into the shadows like the negative of a person I’d never seen before in my life.
SYLVIA PLATHI am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me.
SYLVIA PLATHThe constant struggle in mature life, I think, is to accept the necessity of tragedy and conflict, and not to try to escape to some falsely simple solution which does not include these more somber complexities.
SYLVIA PLATH