Sylvia Plath Quotes

610 quotes · Poet, Novelist

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Sylvia Plath Quotes

All Spiritual Lonely Sad Love Creative 610 quotes · page 29 of 50

Sylvia Plath

Poet, Novelist

Sad

“I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas, as if whatever it was the pine boughs and the candles and the silver and gilt-ribboned presents and the birch-log fires and the Christmas turkey and the carols at the piano promised never came to pass.”

Fire Disappointment Christmas

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Sylvia Plath

Poet, Novelist

Sad

“Perhaps you considered yourself an oracle, Mouthpiece of the dead, or of some god or other. Thirty years now I have labored To dredge the silt from your throat. I am none the wiser.”

Years Thirty Oracles

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Spiritual

“I suppose if I gave myself the chance I could be an alcoholic.”

Ifs Chance Alcoholics

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Lonely

“They would grow old. They would forget me.”

Forget Grows

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Grateful

“I am sure there are things that can't be cured by a good bath but I can't think of one.”

Thinking Pain

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Creative

“As a poet, one lives a bit on air. I always like someone who can teach me something practical.”

Air Poet Teach

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Sad

“God, is this all it is, the ricocheting down the corridor of laughter and tears? Of self-worship and self-loathing? Of glory and disgust?”

Self Laughter Tears

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Lonely

“..I fancied you'd return the way you said, But I grow old and I forget your name. (I think I made you up inside my head.) I should have loved a thunderbird instead; At least when spring comes they roar back again. I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead. (I think I made you up inside my head.)”

Thinking Eye Spring

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Creative

“To learn and think; to think and live; to live and learn: this always, with new insight, new understanding, and new love.”

Thinking Understanding Live And Learn

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Philosophical

“I am but one more drop in the great sea of matter, defined, with the ability to realize my existence.”

Matter Sea Realizing

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Curious

“I am not a historian, but I find myself being more and more fascinated by history and now I find myself reading more and more about history. I am very interested in Napoleon, at the present: I'm very interested in battles, in wars, in Gallipoli, the First World War and so on, and I think that as I age I am becoming more and more historical. I certainly wasn't at all in my early twenties.”

Thinking War Reading

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Confident

“I believe that one should be able to control and manipulate experiences, even the most terrifying, like madness, being tortured...with an informed and intelligent mind.”

Believe Mind Intelligent

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