The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn’t thought about it.
SYLVIA PLATHThe trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn’t thought about it.
SYLVIA PLATHI took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.
SYLVIA PLATHLove is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it
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 PLATHI want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night.
SYLVIA PLATHI am not cruel, only truthful.
SYLVIA PLATHOne thing, I try to be honest. And what is revealed is often rather hideously unflattering.
SYLVIA PLATHLove life day by day, color by color, touch by touch.
SYLVIA PLATHI want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life.
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 PLATHI felt myself melting into the shadows like the negative of a person I’d never seen before in my life.
SYLVIA PLATHPerhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.
SYLVIA PLATHA man’s world is different from a woman’s world and a man’s emotions are different from a woman’s emotions and only marriage can bring the two different sets of emotions together properly.
SYLVIA PLATHThere is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street alone.
SYLVIA PLATHI don’t care about anyone, and the feeling is quite obviously mutual.
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