Sylvia Plath's quotes

About Sylvia Plath

She channeled raw anguish into revolutionary art,penning the searing novel The Bell Jar and confessional poems that cracked open the world of mental health. A blazing talent whose unflinching look at the female psyche forever changed literature.

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I see in Cambridge, particularly among the women dons, a series of such grotesques! It is almost like a caricature series from Dickens to see our head...

Sylvia Plath 14

That is how it stiffens, my vision of that seaside childhood. My father died; we moved inland. Whereon those nine first years of my life sealed...

Sylvia Plath 14

I saw the gooseflesh on my skin. I did not know what made it. I was not cold. Had a ghost passed over? No, it was the poetry.

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I felt proud that the baby's first real adventure should be as a protest against the insanity of world annihilation. Already a certain percentage of...

Sylvia Plath 14

Perfection is terrible; it cannot have children.

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I am too pure for you or anyone.

Sylvia Plath 13

Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline. You've got to go so far so fast in such a small space; you've got to burn away all the peripherals.

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One should be able to control and manipulate experiences with an informed and intelligent mind.

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Sylvia Plath's quotes

About Sylvia Plath

Quotes (52)

I see in Cambridge, particularly among the women dons, a series of such grotesques! It is almost like a caricature series from Dickens to see our head...

That is how it stiffens, my vision of that seaside childhood. My father died; we moved inland. Whereon those nine first years of my life sealed...

I saw the gooseflesh on my skin. I did not know what made it. I was not cold. Had a ghost passed over? No, it was the poetry.

I felt proud that the baby's first real adventure should be as a protest against the insanity of world annihilation. Already a certain percentage of...

Perfection is terrible; it cannot have children.

I am too pure for you or anyone.

Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline. You've got to go so far so fast in such a small space; you've got to burn away all the peripherals.

One should be able to control and manipulate experiences with an informed and intelligent mind.

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