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 still expected to see Doreen's body lying there in the pool of vomit like an ugly, concrete testimony to my own dirty nature.- The Bell Jar
All the heat and fear had purged itself. I felt surprisingly at peace. The bell jar hung suspended a few feet above my head. I was open to the circulating air.
I didn't know what I was doing in New York.
The trouble was, I had been inadequate all along, I simply hadn't thought about it.
There I went again, building up a glamorous picture of a man who would love me passionately the minute he met me, and all out of a few prosy nothings.
But I wasn't sure. I wasn't sure at all. How did I know that someday―at college, in Europe, somewhere, anywhere―the bell jar, with its stifling distortions, wouldn't descend again?
I wanted to be where nobody I knew could ever come.
I couldn’t see the point of getting up. I had nothing to look forward to.
There was a beautiful time...
The one thing I was good at was winning scholarships and prizes, and that era was coming to an end.
I am made, crudely, for success.
Not easy to state the change you made. If I'm alive now, I was dead, Though, like a stone, unbothered by it.
There ought, I thought, to be a ritual for being born twice - patched, retreaded and approved for the road.
When they asked me what I wanted to be I said I didn't know.