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
The thought that I might kill myself formed in my mind coolly as a tree or a flower.
If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell.
Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it
Well, I know now. I know a little more how much a simple thing like a snowfall can mean to a person
I am gone quite mad with the knowledge of accepting the overwhelming number of things I can never know, places I can never go, and people I can never be.
We should meet in another life, we should meet in air, me and you.
Wear your heart on your skin in this life.
Feel oddly barren. My sickness is when words draw in their horns and the physical world refuses to be ordered, recreated, arranged and selected. I am a victim of it then, not a master.
Your room is not your prison. You are.
The slime of all my yesterdays rots in the hollow of my skull.
I am still so naïve; I know pretty much what I like and dislike; but please, don’t ask me who I am. A passionate, fragmentary girl, maybe?
I am solitary as grass. What is it I miss? Shall I ever find it, whatever it is?
I want to be able to sleep in an open field, to travel west, to walk freely at night.
When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn't know.