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 am so hungry for a big smashing creative burgeoning burdened love.
Every day is precious and I feel infinitely sad at this time melting away from me.
I ride earth's burning carousel. Day in, day out.
I deserve that, don't I, some sort of blazing love that I can live with.
I do not know who I am, where I am going - and I am the one who has to decide the answers to these hideous questions.
And there's the fallacy of existence: the idea that one could be happy forever and age with a given situation or series of accomplishments.
Love life day by day, color by color, touch by touch.
I can't be satisfied with the colossal job of merely living.
It is a feeling that no matter what the ideas or conduct of others, there is a unique rightness and beauty to life which can be shared in openness, in wind and sunlight, with a fellow human being who believes in the same basic principles.
Dancing is the normal prelude to intercourse.
Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing, which remark I guess shows I still don't have a pure motive (O it's-such-fun-I-just-can't-stop-who-cares-if-it's-published-or-read) about writing.
You know what lies are for.
... I keep wanting to crawl back into the womb ...
This seemed a dreary and wasted life for a girl with fifteen years of straight A's, but I knew that's what marriage was like, because cook and clean and wash was just what Buddy Willard's mother did from morning till night, and she was the wife of a university professor and had been a private school teacher herself.