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.

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

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

Sylvia Plath

Arrogant, I think I have written lines which qualify me to be The Poetess of America (as Ted will be The Poet of England and her dominions).

Arrogant, I think I have written lines which qualify me to be The Poetess of America (as Ted will be The Poet of England and her dominions).

Sylvia Plath

I have a visual imagination.

I have a visual imagination.

Sylvia Plath

The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it.

The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it.

Sylvia Plath

Widow. The word consumes itself.

Widow. The word consumes itself.

Sylvia Plath

For a time, I believed not in God nor Santa Claus, but in mermaids. They seemed as logical and possible to me as the brittle twig of a seahorse in the zoo aquarium or the skates lugged up on the lines of cursing Sunday fishermen - skates the shape of old pillowslips with the full, coy lips of women.

Sylvia Plath

Kiss me and you will see how important I am.

Kiss me and you will see how important I am.

Sylvia Plath

Poetry at its best can do you a lot of harm.

Poetry at its best can do you a lot of harm.

Sylvia Plath

It is as if my life were magically run by two electric currents: joyous positive and despairing negative - whichever is running at the moment dominates my life, floods it.

It is as if my life were magically run by two electric currents: joyous positive and despairing negative - whichever is running at the moment dominates my life, floods it.

Sylvia Plath

I am a victim of introspection.

I am a victim of introspection.

Sylvia Plath

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