American poet, novelist, and short-story writer
If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed. – Sylvia Plath
Kiss me, and you will see how important I am. – Sylvia Plath
What a man wants is a mate and what a woman wants is infinite security,’ and, ‘What a man is is an arrow into the future and a what a woman is is the place the arrow shoots off from. – Sylvia Plath
I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited. – Sylvia Plath
Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing. – Sylvia Plath
I wish you’d find the exit out of my head. – Sylvia Plath
Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I’ve taken for granted. – Sylvia Plath
I talk to God but the sky is empty. – Sylvia Plath
The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. – Sylvia Plath
The hardest thing is to live richly in the present without letting it be tainted out of fear for the future or regret for the past. – Sylvia Plath
Why can’t I try on different lives, like dresses, to see which fits best and is more becoming? – Sylvia Plath
Some things are hard to write about. After something happens to you, you go to write it down, and either you over dramatize it, or underplay it, exaggerate the wrong parts or ignore the important ones. At any rate, you never write it quite the way you want to. – Sylvia Plath
If I didn’t think, I’d be much happier. – Sylvia Plath
Why the hell are we conditioned into the smooth strawberry-and-cream Mother-Goose-world, Alice-in-Wonderland fable, only to be broken on the wheel as we grow older and become aware of ourselves as individuals with a dull responsibility in life? – Sylvia Plath
I’ll never speak to God again. – Sylvia Plath
My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you. – Sylvia Plath
Let me live, love and say it well in good sentences. – Sylvia Plath
If they substituted the word ‘Lust’ for ‘Love’ in the popular songs it would come nearer the truth. – Sylvia Plath
If only I knew what I wanted I could try to see about getting it. – Sylvia Plath
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. – Sylvia Plath
Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children. – Sylvia Plath
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