I write only because There is a voice within me That will not be still.
SYLVIA PLATHI write only because There is a voice within me That will not be still.
SYLVIA PLATHOnly I wasn’t steering anything, not even myself.
SYLVIA PLATHI am not cruel, only truthful.
SYLVIA PLATHMy mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.
SYLVIA PLATHI find that in a novel I can get more of life, perhaps not such intense life, but certainly more of life than in poetry.
SYLVIA PLATHWhat I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination.
SYLVIA PLATHI am dead to them, even though I once flowered.
SYLVIA PLATHThe abstract kills, the concrete saves.
SYLVIA PLATHThe sheets grow heavy as a lecher’s kiss.
SYLVIA PLATHIt is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me.
SYLVIA PLATHI want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.
SYLVIA PLATHEverything in life is writable.
SYLVIA PLATHI want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life.
SYLVIA PLATHLove life day by day, color by color, touch by touch.
SYLVIA PLATHI desire the things that will destroy me in the end.
SYLVIA PLATHWhen you give someone your whole heart and he doesn’t want it, you cannot take it back. It’s gone forever.
SYLVIA PLATH