Quote

I love life. But it is hard and I have so much, so very much to learn.

Sylvia Plath

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Sylvia Plath
Age: 30 †
Born: 1932
Born: October 27
Died: 1963
Died: February 11
Autobiographer
Diarist
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Writer
Boston
Massachusetts
Victoria Lucas
Sylvia Plath Hughes
Love
Life
Learn
Hard
Much

More quotes by Sylvia Plath

Image
For me, poetry is an evasion of the real job of writing prose.
Sylvia Plath
Image
I like people too much or not at all. I've got to go down deep, to fall into people, to really know them.
Sylvia Plath
Image
I do not know who I am, where I am going - and I am the one who has to decide the answers to these hideous questions.
Sylvia Plath
Image
So I began to think maybe it was true that when you were married and had children it was like being brainwashed, and afterward you went about as numb as a slave in a totalitarian state.
Sylvia Plath
Image
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.
Sylvia Plath
Image
Tomorrow I will curse the dawn, but there will be other, earlier nights, and the dawns will be no longer hell laid out in alarms and raw bells and sirens.
Sylvia Plath
Image
A psychiatrist is the god of our age. But they cost money.
Sylvia Plath
Image
I don't know what started me, I just wrote poetry from the time was quite small. I guess I liked nursery rhymes and I guess I thought I could do the same thing. I wrote my first poem, my first published poem, when I was eight-and-a-half years old. It came out in The Boston Traveller and from then on, I suppose, I've been a bit of a professional.
Sylvia Plath
Image
I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart. I am. I am. I am.
Sylvia Plath
Image
No day is safe from news of you.
Sylvia Plath
Image
Let me sit in a flowerpot, The spiders won't notice. My heart is a stopped geranium.
Sylvia Plath
Image
I hurl my heart to halt his pace.
Sylvia Plath
Image
The blood of love welled up in my heart with a slow pain.
Sylvia Plath
Image
There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.
Sylvia Plath
Image
If I was going to fall, I would hang on to my small comforts, at least, for as long as I possibly could.
Sylvia Plath
Image
The thought that I might kill myself formed in my mind coolly as a tree or a flower.
Sylvia Plath
Image
I must be lean & write & make worlds beside this to live in.
Sylvia Plath
Image
The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
Sylvia Plath
Image
I couldn’t see the point of getting up. I had nothing to look forward to.
Sylvia Plath
Image
Sunday-the doctor's paradise! Doctors at country clubs, doctors at the seaside, doctors with mistresses, doctors with wives, doctors in church, doctors in yachts, doctors everywhere resolutely being people, not doctors.
Sylvia Plath