I think the sea swallowed dozens of tea sets - tossed in abandon off liners or consigned to the tide by jilted brides. I collected a shiver of china bits, with borders of larkspur and birds or braids of daisies. No two patterns ever matched. Sylvia Plath abandonbirdbit share on social
Perfection is terrible; it cannot have children. Sylvia Plath childperfectionterrible Change image and share on social
I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Sylvia Plath activechoiceconstantly Change image and share on social
There is something suspect, especially in America, about people who don't have ten-year plans for a career or at least a regular job. Sylvia Plath americacareerjob Change image and share on social
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. Sylvia Plath burndisciplinefast Change image and share on social
Didn't you know I'm going to be the greatest, most entertaining author and artist in the world? Well, don't feel badly, I didn't either! Sylvia Plath artistauthorbadly Change image and share on social
Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing. Sylvia Plath closedangerouslyfind Change image and share on social
I saw the first of the 7-mile-long column appear - red and orange and green banners, 'Ban the Bomb!' etc., shining and swaying slowly. Absolute silence. I found myself weeping to see the tan, dusty marchers, knapsacks on their backs - Quakers and Catholics, Africans and whites, Algerians and French - 40 percent were London housewives. Sylvia Plath absoluteafricanalgerian share on social
My childhood landscape was not land but the end of the land - the cold, salt, running hills of the Atlantic. I sometimes think my vision of the sea is the clearest thing I own. Sylvia Plath atlanticchildhoodclear Change image and share on social