Sylvia Plath Quotes

610 quotes · Poet, Novelist

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Sylvia Plath Quotes

All Spiritual Lonely Sad Love Creative 610 quotes · page 27 of 50

Sylvia Plath

Poet, Novelist

Spiritual

“The night sky is only a sort of carbon paper, Blueblack, with the much-poked periods of stars Letting in the light, peephole after peephole--- A bonewhite light, like death, behind all things.”

Light Night Stars

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Sylvia Plath

Poet, Novelist

Grateful

“The first time I saw a fingerbowl was at the home of my benefactress. [...] The water had a few cherry blossoms in it, and I thought it must be some clear sort of Japanese after-dinner soup and ate every bit of it, including the crisp little blossoms.”

Home Water Soup

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Sad

“I couldn’t see the point of getting up. I had nothing to look forward to.”

Looks Bell Jar

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Spiritual

“Once one has seen God, what is the remedy?”

God Remedy

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Sad

“I thought how strange it had never occurred to me before that I was only purely happy until I was nine years old.”

Years Strange Nine

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Melancholic

“The silence drew off, baring the pebbles and shells and all the tatty wreckage of my life.”

Silence Shells Pebbles

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Calm

“I woke to the sound of rain.”

Sound Rain

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Inspired

“I dream too much, work too little.”

Dream Littles

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Love

“You walked in, laughing, tears welling confused, mingling in your throat. How can you be so many women to so many people, oh you strange girl?”

People Girl Confused

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Creative

“It is a feeling that no matter what the ideas or conduct of others, there is a unique rightness and beauty to life which can be shared in openness, in wind and sunlight, with a fellow human being who believes in the same basic principles.”

Believe Wind Unique

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Determined

“I have to live my life, and it is the only one I’ll ever have.”

Living My Life

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Wise

“Character is fate.”

Character Fate

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