Top 83 Quotes by Sylvia Plath

About Sylvia Plath

These are some quotes by American author Sylvia Plath Poet, who lived between October 27, 1932 and February 11, 1963.

I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad.

I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad.

Sylvia Plath

Perfection is terrible; it cannot have children.

Perfection is terrible; it cannot have children.

Sylvia Plath

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.

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

I hope to submit to the little pamphlet magazines here 'freelance' and perhaps shall join the Labour Club, as I really want to become informed on politics, and it seems to have an excellent program. I am definitely not a Conservative, and the Liberals are too vague and close to the latter.

Sylvia Plath

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.

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

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!

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

Mountains terrify me - they just sit about; they are so proud.

Mountains terrify me - they just sit about; they are so proud.

Sylvia Plath

The sea was our main entertainment. When company came, we set them before it on rugs, with thermoses and sandwiches and colored umbrellas, as if the water - blue, green, gray, navy or silver as it might be - were enough to watch.

Sylvia Plath

I want Books and Babies and Beef stews.

I want Books and Babies and Beef stews.

Sylvia Plath

I don't believe that the meek will inherit the earth; The meek get ignored and trampled.

I don't believe that the meek will inherit the earth; The meek get ignored and trampled.

Sylvia Plath

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