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.

How we need another soul to cling to.

How we need another soul to cling to.

Sylvia Plath

It seems this is an age of clever critics who keep bewailing the fact that there are no works worthy of criticism.

It seems this is an age of clever critics who keep bewailing the fact that there are no works worthy of criticism.

Sylvia Plath

When I was learning to creep, my mother set me down on the beach to see what I thought of it. I crawled straight for the coming wave and was just through the wall of green when she caught my heels.

When I was learning to creep, my mother set me down on the beach to see what I thought of it. I crawled straight for the coming wave and was just through the wall of green when she caught my heels.

Sylvia Plath

I saw the gooseflesh on my skin. I did not know what made it. I was not cold. Had a ghost passed over? No, it was the poetry.

I saw the gooseflesh on my skin. I did not know what made it. I was not cold. Had a ghost passed over? No, it was the poetry.

Sylvia Plath

I see in Cambridge, particularly among the women dons, a series of such grotesques! It is almost like a caricature series from Dickens to see our head table at Newnham.

I see in Cambridge, particularly among the women dons, a series of such grotesques! It is almost like a caricature series from Dickens to see our head table at Newnham.

Sylvia Plath

Excellent teachers showered on to us like meteors: Biology teachers holding up human brains, English teachers inspiring us with a personal ideological fierceness about Tolstoy and Plato, Art teachers leading us through the slums of Boston, then back to the easel to hurl public school gouache with social awareness and fury.

Sylvia Plath

Indecision and reveries are the anesthetics of constructive action.

Indecision and reveries are the anesthetics of constructive action.

Sylvia Plath

There is an increasing market for mental hospital stuff. I am a fool if I don't relive it, recreate it.

There is an increasing market for mental hospital stuff. I am a fool if I don't relive it, recreate it.

Sylvia Plath

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

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

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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