Sylvia Plath Quotes about Reading

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So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.

So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.

Sylvia Plath

Reading, Thinking, Long

Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.149, Anchor

So much working, reading, thinking, living to do. A lifetime is not long enough. Nor youth to old age long enough. Immortality and permanence be damned. Sure I want them, but they are nonexistent, and won't matter when I rot underground. All I want to say is: I made the best of a mediocre job. It was a good fight while it lasted. And so life goes.

Sylvia Plath

Jobs, Reading, Fighting

Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.149, Anchor

I am not a historian, but I find myself being more and more fascinated by history and now I find myself reading more and more about history. I am very interested in Napoleon, at the present: I'm very interested in battles, in wars, in Gallipoli, the First World War and so on, and I think that as I age I am becoming more and more historical. I certainly wasn't at all in my early twenties.

Sylvia Plath

War, Reading, Thinking

Source: www.english.illinois.edu

I do feel that now and I feel that this development of recording poems, of speaking poems at readings, of having records of poets, I think this is a wonderful thing. I'm very excited by it. In a sense, there's a return, isn't there, to the old role of the poet, which was to speak to a group of people, to come across.

Sylvia Plath

Reading, Thinking, People

Source: www.english.illinois.edu