Sylvia Plath Quotes

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.
Sylvia Plath

Life, Enemy, Everything

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Kiss me and you will see how important I am.
Sylvia Plath

Important, Kiss

Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.
Sylvia Plath

Nothing, Everything, Find

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've a call.
Sylvia Plath

Art, Real, Everything

There must be quite a few things that a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.
Sylvia Plath

Few, Won, Quite

I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.
Sylvia Plath

Heart, Deep, Old

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell. I'll be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days.
Sylvia Plath

Time, Two, Same

I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my eyes and all is born again.
Sylvia Plath

Eyes, Again, Dead

Is there no way out of the mind?
Sylvia Plath

Apparently, the most difficult feat for a Cambridge male is to accept a woman not merely as feeling, not merely as thinking, but as managing a complex, vital interweaving of both.
Sylvia Plath

Woman, Feeling, Thinking

But life is long. And it is the long run that balances the short flare of interest and passion.
Sylvia Plath

Life, Long, Passion

Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing.
Sylvia Plath

Nothing, Writing, Pile

How frail the human heart must be - a mirrored pool of thought.
Sylvia Plath

Heart, Human, Thought

The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it.
Sylvia Plath

Poetry, Blood, Stopping

I am too pure for you or anyone.
Sylvia Plath

Widow. The word consumes itself.
Sylvia Plath

Word, Widow, Consumes

I talk to God but the sky is empty.
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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Poet

Born: October 27, 1932

Died: February 11, 1963

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