Sylvia Plath Quotes

610 quotes · Poet, Novelist

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Sylvia Plath Quotes

All Spiritual Lonely Sad Love Creative 610 quotes · page 28 of 50

Sylvia Plath

Poet, Novelist

Philosophical

“...we shall board our imagined ship and wildly sail among sacred islands of the mad till death shatters the fabulous stars and makes us real.”

Real Stars Islands

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Sylvia Plath

Poet, Novelist

Thoughtful

“I have no preconceptions. Whatever I see, I swallow immediately. Just as it is, unmisted by love or dislike. I am not cruel, only truthful.”

Truthful Dislike Preconceptions

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Happy

“You smile. No, it is not fatal.”

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Love

“Can you understand? Someone, somewhere, can you understand me a little, love me a little?”

Littles Understand Me

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Determined

“Hurl yourself at goals above your head and bear the lacerations that come when you slip and make a fool of yourself. Try always, as long as you have breath in your body, to take the hard way–and work, work, work to build yourself into a rich, continually evolving entity.”

Trying Long Goal

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Thoughtful

“Winning or losing an argument, receiving an acceptance or rejection, is no proof of the validity or value of personal identity. One may be wrong, mistaken, or a poor craftsman, or just ignorant - but this is no indication of the true worth of one's total human identity: past, present and future!”

Past Winning Acceptance

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Lonely

“I wanted to be where nobody I knew could ever come.”

Wanted Bell Jar

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Lonely

“Aloneness and selfness are too important to betray for company.”

Important Company

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Thoughtful

“What I cannot forgive is dishonesty - and no matter what, or how hard, I would rather know the truth of which I today had such a clear & devastating vision from his mouth than hear foul evasions, blurrings and rattiness.”

Vision Forgiving Mouths

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Love

“A man's world is different from a woman's world and a man's emotions are different from a woman's emotions and only marriage can bring the two different sets of emotions together properly.”

Men Two Together

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Confident

“I must not be selfless: develop a sense of self. A solidness that can't be attacked.”

Self Selfless

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Philosophical

“Spiderlike, I spin mirrors, Loyal to my image.”

Mirrors Loyal

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