Sylvia Plath Quotes — Page 30

Sylvia Plath

Poet, Novelist

Vulnerable

“The one thing I was good at was winning scholarships and prizes, and that era was coming to an end.”

Winning Eras Bell Jar

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Sylvia Plath

Poet, Novelist

Melancholic

“Piece by piece, I fed my wardrobe to the night wind, and flutteringly, like a loved one’s ashes, the gray scraps were ferried off, to settle here, there, exactly where I would never know, in the dark heart of New York.”

Heart Dark New York

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Sad

“The tulips are too red...they hurt me.”

Hurt Red

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Calm

“I never feel so much myself as when I'm in a hot bath.”

Hot Feminism

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Lonely

“The only reason I remembered this play was because it had a mad person in it, and everything I had ever read about mad people stuck in my mind, while everything else flew out.”

People Play Mad

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Lonely

“I began to see why woman-haters could make such fools of women. Woman-haters were like gods: invulnerable and chock full of power. They descended, and then they disappeared. You could never catch one.”

Inspirational Women Fool

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Funny

“Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing, which remark I guess shows I still don't have a pure motive (O it's-such-fun-I-just-can't-stop-who-cares-if-it's-published-or-read) about writing.”

Writing Fun Who Cares

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Love

“From the night Buddy Willard kissed me and said I must go out with a lot of boys, he made me feel I was much more sexy and experienced than he was and that everything he did like hugging and kissing and petting was simply what I made him feel like doing out of the blue, he couldn’t help it and didn’t know how it came about. Now I saw he had only been pretending all this time to be so innocent.”

Boys Kissing Sexy

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Hopeful

“And so I rehabilitate myself - staying up late this Friday night in spite of vowing to go to bed early, because it is more important to capture moments like this, keen shifts in mood, sudden veering of direction - than to lose it in slumber.”

Important Night Friday

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Thoughtful

“I feel that very strongly: having been an academic, having been tempted by the invitation to stay on to become a Ph.D., a professor, and all that, one side of me certainly does respect all disciplines, as long as they don't ossify.”

Long Doe Discipline

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Sad

“The moon has nothing to be sad about, Staring from her hood of bone. She is used to this sort of thing. Her blacks crackle and drag.”

Moon Darkness Bones

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Hopeful

“I do feel that now and I feel that this development of recording poems, of speaking poems at readings, of having records of poets, I think this is a wonderful thing. I'm very excited by it. In a sense, there's a return, isn't there, to the old role of the poet, which was to speak to a group of people, to come across.”

People Thinking Reading

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