Sylvia Path is one of the most beloved American poets. She has written on themes like self-death and nature using her own personal experience. Today we are going to list out some of the best Sylvia Path Quotes that are pretty great to read.
Sylvia Plath Quotes
“If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”
“I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.”
“And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
“I know pretty much what I like and dislike; but please, don’t ask me who I am.”
“I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.”
“Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.”
“I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, “This is what it is to be happy.”
“The silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence.”
“I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead;I lift my eyes and all is born again.”
“Let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences”
“Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I’ve taken for granted.”
“Is there no way out of the mind?”
“I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.”
“There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.”
“God, but life is loneliness, despite all the opiates, despite the shrill tinsel gaiety of “parties” with no purpose, despite the false grinning faces we all wear. And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter – they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long. Yes, there is joy, fulfillment, and companionship – but the loneliness of the soul in its appalling self-consciousness is horrible and overpowering.”
“There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room. It’s like watching Paris from an express caboose heading in the opposite direction–every second the city gets smaller and smaller, only you feel it’s really you getting smaller and smaller and lonelier and lonelier, rushing away from all those lights and excitement at about a million miles an hour.”
Sylvia Plath Quotes On Love
“I want to live and feel all the shades, tones, and variations of mental and physical experience possible in my life. And I am horribly limited.”
“If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”
“I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.”
“Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to it. I want to become acutely aware of all I’ve taken for granted.”
“Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.”
“You have to be able to make a real creative life for yourself before you can expect anyone else to provide one ready-made for you.
“I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.”
“What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.”
“The hardest thing is to live richly in the present without letting it be tainted out of fear for the future or regret for the past.”
“The silence depressed me. It wasn’t the silence of silence. It was my own silence.”
“I like people too much or not at all. I’ve got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.”
“Kiss me, and you will see how important I am.”
“There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won’t cure, but I don’t know many of them.”
“If the moon smiled, she would resemble you. You leave the same impression Of something beautiful, but annihilating.”
“When you give someone your whole heart and he doesn’t want it, you cannot take it back. It’s gone forever.”
Sylvia Plath Quotes On Life
“Wear your heart on your skin in this life.”
“But life is long. And it is the long run that balances the short flare of interest and passion.”
“It is as if my life were magically run by two electric currents: joyous positive and despairing negative – whichever is running at the moment dominates my life, floods it.”
“That is how it stiffens, my vision of that seaside childhood. My father died; we moved inland. Whereon those nine first years of my life sealed themselves off like a ship in a bottle – beautiful, inaccessible, obsolete: a fine, white, flying myth.”
“Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well. I do it so it feels like hell. I do it so it feels real. I guess you could say I have a call.”
Sylvia Plath Quotes On Writing
“Poetry, I feel, is a tyrannical discipline. You’ve got to go so far so fast in such a small space; you’ve got to burn away all the peripherals.”
“Poetry at its best can do you a lot of harm.”
“Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing.”
“The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it.”
“I am a writer… I am a genius of a writer; I have it in me. I am writing the best poems of my life; they will make my name.”
“I remember that as I was writing a poem on ‘Snow’ when I was eight, I said aloud, I wish I could have the ability to write down the feelings I have now when I am little because when I grow up, I will know how to write, but I will have forgotten what little feeling like.”
“Arrogant, I think I have written lines that qualify me to be The Poetess of America (as Ted will be The Poet of England and her dominions).”
“I want Books and Babies and Beef stews.”
“Didn’t you know I’m going to be the greatest, most entertaining author and artist in the world? Well, don’t feel bad, I didn’t either!”
“Since my woman’s world is perceived greatly through the emotions and the senses, I treat it that way in my writing – and am often overweighted with heavy descriptive passages and a kaleidoscope of similes.”
“I have felt great advances in my poetry, the main one being a growing victory over word nuances and a superfluity of adjectives”
“I think my poems immediately come out of the sensuous and emotional experiences I have.”