It’s a hell of a responsibility to be yourself. It’s much easier to be somebody else or nobody at all.
SYLVIA PLATHIt’s a hell of a responsibility to be yourself. It’s much easier to be somebody else or nobody at all.
SYLVIA PLATHI am what I feel and think and do.
SYLVIA PLATHOnly I wasn’t steering anything, not even myself.
SYLVIA PLATHI want to write because I have the urge to excel in one medium of translation and expression of life.
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 PLATHI talk to God but the sky is empty.
SYLVIA PLATHI must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.
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 PLATHEvery day is precious and I feel infinitely sad at this time melting away from me.
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 shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.
SYLVIA PLATHI am not cruel, only truthful.
SYLVIA PLATHThere is a certain unique and strange delight about walking down an empty street alone.
SYLVIA PLATHAs a poet, one lives a bit on air. I always like someone who can teach me something practical.
SYLVIA PLATHThe sheets grow heavy as a lecher’s kiss.
SYLVIA PLATHPerfection is terrible, it cannot have children.
SYLVIA PLATH