Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plathwas one of the most renowned and influential poets, novelists, and short story writers of the 20th century. Born in Boston, Massachusetts, she studied at Smith College and Newnham College at the University of Cambridge before receiving acclaim as a poet and writer. She was married to fellow poet Ted Hughes from 1956 until they separated in September of 1962. They lived together in the United States and then the United Kingdom and had two children, Frieda and Nicholas...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth27 October 1932
CountryUnited States of America
I want Books and Babies and Beef stews.
Poetry at its best can do you a lot of harm.
What I want back is what I was.
I think my poems immediately come out of the sensuous and emotional experiences I have.
Out of the ash I rise with my red hair And eat men like air
What does one woman see in another than a man cannot see? Tenderness
I woke to the sound of rain.
You've only got so long to live.
I have the one person I could ever love in this world. Now I must work to be a person worthy of that.
O heart, such disorganization!
I'm doped and thick from my last sleeping pill.
I have suffered the atrocity of sunsets.
Is it the sea you hear in me? Its dissatisfactions? Or the voice of nothing, that was your madness? Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it.
I have taken a pill to kill The thin Papery feeling.