A little thing, like children putting flowers in my hair, can fill up the widening cracks in my self-assurance like soothing lanolin. Sylvia Plath assurancechildcrack Change image and share on social
We fitted, amusingly enough, into none of the form categories of 'The Young American Couple'... security to us is in ourselves, and no job, not even money, can give us what we have to develop: faith in our work and hard, hard work, which is Spartan in many ways. Sylvia Plath americanamusinglycategory share on social
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 coldghostgooseflesh Change image and share on social
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 badcreativitydoubt Change image and share on social
I've begun to think like a Jew, to feel like a Jew. Sylvia Plath beginfeelhave Change image and share on social
How frail the human heart must be - a mirrored pool of thought. Sylvia Plath frailhearthuman Change image and share on social
I made a point of eating so fast I never kept the other people waiting who generally ordered only chef's salad and grapefruit juice because they were trying to reduce. Almost everybody I met in New York was trying to reduce. Sylvia Plath chefeatfast share on social
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 beachcatchcome Change image and 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
