Sylvia Plath Quotes

--There must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.

--Kiss me and you will see how important I am.

--Is there no escaping the mind?

--Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.

--how frail the human heart must be--a mirrored pool of thought

--And by the way, everything is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

--If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at the same time, I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.

--I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.

--Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing.

--Widow. The word consumes itself.

--Doing all the little tricky things it takes to grow up, step by step, in an anxious and unsettling world.

--Now I know what loneliness is, I think. Momentary loneliness, anyways. It comes from a vague core of self--like a disease of the blood dispersed through the body so that one cannot locate the matrix, the spot of contagion.

--When you are insane, you are busy being insane--all the time. When I was crazy, that's all I was.

--The woman is perfected. Her dead body wears a smile of accomplishment.

--I write only because there is a voice within me that will not still.

--Remember, remember, this is now and now and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I've taken for granted.

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