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
Is it the sea you hear in me? Its dissatisfactions? Or the voice of nothing, that was your madness? Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it.
I do not love; I do not love anybody except myself. That is a rather shocking thing to admit.
Love is the bone and sinew of my curse.
If you pluck out my heart To find what makes it move, You’ll halt the clock That syncopates our love.
I fancied you'd return the way you said, But I grow old and I forget your name. (I think I made you up inside my head.)
That is salvation. To give of love inside. To keep love of life, no matter what, and give to others. Generously.
I love life. But it is hard and I have so much, so very much to learn.
Love life day by day, color by color, touch by touch.
I had decided I would put off the novel until I had gone to Europe and had a lover.
I have never found anybody who could stand to accept the daily demonstrative love I feel in me, and give back as good as I give.
Love is a shadow. How you lie and cry after it
The truth comes to me. The truth loves me.
When you give someone your whole heart and he doesn't want it, you cannot take it back. It's gone forever.
Yes, I was infatuated with you: I am still. No one has ever heightened such a keen capacity of physical sensation in me. I cut you out because I couldn't stand being a passing fancy. Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams. And you weren't having any of those.