“We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.”
— Sylvia Plath“So much working, reading, thinking, living to do! A lifetime is not long enough.”
— Sylvia Plath“Oh, something is there, waiting for me. Perhaps someday the revelation will burst in upon me and I will see the other side of this monumental grotesque joke. And then I'll laugh. And then I'll know what life is.”
— Sylvia Plath“There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.”
— Sylvia Plath“I need a father. I need a mother. I need some older, wiser being to cry to. I talk to God, but the sky is empty.”
— Sylvia Plath“The blood jet is poetry,There is no stopping it.--from Kindness, written 1 February 1963”
— Sylvia Plath“Writing, then, was a substitute for myself: if you don't love me, love my writing & love me for my writing. It is also much more: a way of ordering and reordering the chaos of experience.”
— Sylvia Plath“Stars open among the lilies.Are you not blinded by such expressionless sirens?This is the silence of astounded souls.--from Crossing the Water, written 1962”
— Sylvia PlathSometimes being emotionless is not a choice, but a survival tactic in a world that demands too much from you.
— Sylvia PlathWhen you become emotionless, you lose touch with your passions, but also with your pain.
— Sylvia Plath