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
Every day one has to earn the name of 'writer' over again, with much wrestling.
I feel terribly vulnerable and 'not-myself' when I'm not writing ...
If every soldier refused to take arms ... there would be no wars; but no one has the courage to be the first to live according to Christ and Socrates, because in a world of opportunists they would be martyred.
If the body is a temple, then tattoos are its stained glass windows.
God, how I ricochet between certainties and doubts.
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.
It's a hell of a responsibility to be yourself. It's much easier to be somebody else or nobody at all.
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.