Sylvia Plath quotes

" I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart: I am, I am, I am. " # Bragging # Love # Listening

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

" The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it. " # Poetry and Poets

" How frail the human heart must be --a mirrored pool of thought... " # Sensitivity # Death and Dying # Courage

" I don't care any more about the handsome wealthy boys who come gingerly into the living room to take out the girl they thought would look nice in an evening cocktail dress...I said I wanted to go out with them to meet new people. I ask you, what logic is there in that? What guy you would like, would see the depths in a girl outwardly like all the other physical american queenies? So why go places with guys you can't talk to? You'll never meet a soul that way---not the sort you want to meet. Better to stay in your garret reading than to go from one party to another. Face it, kid: unless you can be yourself, you won't stay with anyone for long. You've got to be able to talk. That's tough. But spend your nights learning, so you'll have something to say. Something the "attractive intelligent man" will want to listen to. " # Books - Reading # Love # Success

" I talk to God, but the sky is empty. " # God

" Everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it and the imagination to improvise. " # Money

" The silence depressed me. It wasn't the silence of silence. It was my own silence. I knew perfectly well the cars were making a noise, and the people in them and behind the lit windows of the buildings were making a noise, and the river was making a noise, but I couldn't hear a thing. The city hung in my window, flat as a poster, glittering and blinking, but it might just as well not have been there at all, for the good it did me. " # Silence # Cities and City Life # Noise

" Is there no way out of the mind? " # Mind

" I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again. " # Perspective # Death and Dying # Marriage