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
Girls are not machines that you put kindness coins into until sex falls out.
And I, love, am a pathological liar,
Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.
I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.
I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. And why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life. And I am horribly limited.
We stayed at home to write, to consolidate our outstretched selves.
If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.
What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.
If I didn’t think, I’d be much happier.
What did my arms do before they held you?
Oh what a poet I will flay myself into.
Oh what a poet I will flay myself into.
Living with him is like being told a perpetual story: his mind is the biggest, most imaginative I have ever met. I could live in its growing countries forever.
Perfection is terrible, it cannot have children.