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Sylvia Plath Quotes - Page 2

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Kiss me and you will see how important I am.

Kiss me and you will see how important I am.

Kissing, Feminism, Important

Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.197, Anchor

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

Life, Sad, Writing

Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.85, Anchor

We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.

Friendship, Air, Another Life

Sylvia Plath (2011). “Selected Poems of Sylvia Plath”, p.52, Faber & Faber

It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me.

World, Touch Me, Feels

Sylvia Plath (2000). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath, 1950-1962”, Anchor

Yes, I was infatuated with you: I am still. No one has ever heightened such a keen capacity of physical sensation in me. I cut you out because I couldn't stand being a passing fancy. Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams. And you weren't having any of those.

Love, Dream, Cutting

Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.20, Anchor

So many people are shut up tight inside themselves like boxes, yet they would open up, unfolding quite wonderfully, if only you were interested in them.

People, Shut Up, Boxes

Sylvia Plath (1994). “Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams”

I am afraid of getting older … I am afraid of getting married. Spare me from cooking three meals a day—spare me from the relentless cage of routine and rote. I want to be free…. I want, I want to think, to be omniscient…. I think I would like to call myself ‘The girl who wanted to be God.

Girl, Thinking, Cooking

Sylvia Plath (2011). “Letters Home”, p.66, Faber & Faber

Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.

Inspirational, Goal, Feminism

We must be moving, working, making dreams to run toward; the poverty of life without dreams is too horrible to imagine.

Running, Dream, Moving

Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.110, Anchor

I am myself. That is not enough.

Chaos, Conformity, Enough

Sylvia Plath (2015). “Collected Poems”, p.185, Faber & Faber

Perhaps 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.

Heartbreak, Home, Long

Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.23, Anchor

Is there no way out of the mind?

Frustration, Mind, Feminism

'Apprehensions'

I'm sarcastic, skeptical, and sometimes callous because I'm still afraid, deep down, of letting myself be hurt.

Sarcastic, Hurt, Sometimes

I want so obviously, so desperately to be loved, and to be capable of love.

Want, Capable

Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.70, Anchor

I love my rejection slips. They show me I try.

Encouraging, Rejection, Trying

I want to taste and glory in each day, and never be afraid to experience pain; and never shut myself up in a numb core of nonfeeling, or stop questioning and criticizing life and take the easy way out. To learn and think: to think and live; to live and learn: this always, with new insight, new understanding, and new love.

Pain, Thinking, Understanding

Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, Frances Monson McCullough (1991). “The journals of Sylvia Plath”

How 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.

Giving, Soul, Needs

Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.21, Anchor

The 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.

Struggle, Simple, Thinking

Sylvia Plath (2011). “Letters Home”, p.301, Faber & Faber

I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.

Sadness, Mad, Choices

Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.24, Anchor

The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.545, Anchor

I smile, now, thinking: we all like to think we are important enough to need psychiatrists

Thinking, Important, Needs

Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.67, Anchor

Character is fate.

Character, Fate

Sylvia Plath (2011). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.34, Faber & Faber

Cheers for spring; for life; for a growing soul.

Cheer, Spring, Soul

Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, Anchor

Your room is not your prison. You are.

Rooms, Prison, Your Room

Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.186, Anchor

Yes, my consuming desire is to mingle with road crews, sailors and soldiers, barroom regulars - to be a part of a scene, anonymous, listening, recording - all this is spoiled by the fact that I am a girl, a female always supposedly in danger of assault and battery. My consuming interest in men and their lives is often misconstrued as a desire to seduce them, or as an invitation to intimacy. Yes, God, I want to talk to everybody as deeply as I can. I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night.

Girl, Sleep, Men

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